[modeleng] Re: Winson Jubillee

Jesse, over here we had many 3 and 4 cylinder locomotives, some with
individual valve gear for each cylinder, others with a conjugated
arrangement so that the movements of one set of valves were derived from the
movements of the other sets.

I suspect that the problems with the Winson engine could be quite
complicated to resolve.
As you may not know the history, Winsons started out making a range of
locomotives, traction engines etc, all fully machined and, according to
their adverts, "able to be assembled with hand tools, no machinery needed,
and no prior knowledge required.".
Alas, this wasn't true, and very soon they went bankrupt, leaving many
people with kits, or parts of kits, of engines that didn't work and often
needed major remedial work to make them function.
It soon transpired that the company hadn't actually built prototypes, just
"designed" (often copying old designs) them made some and went in for
massive advertising.

The Directors were banned from holding office in a company for 5 years,
which is one step short of criminal action.

From the ashes arose Modelworks, who took over the assets, and promptly
started selling the same models in the same way.
They have also introduced other new models, which, once again, have not yet
been built, but for which they will happily take your cash.

A few people have managed to use the parts as the basis for a working model,
and others will buy the remnants of someone's hopes at auction, in the hope
that they can get it working.
In most cases, this requires a lot of work, and is beyond the ability of the
novice for whom these models were designed.

Quite  what is wrong with this particular model design, I have no idea. I
suspect that one would need to spend a lot of time and effort analysing the
design, and checking that it is, in fact, made to the design, and go from
there.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JESSE LIVINGSTON" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:32 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Winson Jubillee


Tim,

Three cylinder locomotive engines were not unknown over here in the
Colonies, but the only one I remember ever actually seeing is a switcher at
the Museum of Transport in St. Louis.  It seems that the valve motion on it
is somehow worked by a system of levers on top the pilot beam.  They are
connected to the valve rods on the two side cylinders and through some
trickytrac movement, they operate the valve for the centre cylinder.  I have
a close-up photo of all the banjo work somewhere if I can find it.

What is the problem about the cylinders not being in line on the Winson?  Is
the centre cylinder lower than the other two?

Jesse in Tennessee




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