[modeleng] Re: Winsons - a different story
- From: "Lee Grant" <leegrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:06:00 +1100
I was just having a look at Doug Hewsons site and noticed that he is now
producing some replacement parts for the Winson Britannia that might make
life a bit easier on the builders.
Lee
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From: "Barrie Purslow" <bpduo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I had a 'phone call last weekend from a guy in Scotland. He rang to tell
me he had just steamed his Winson Britannia - he was over the moon. We had
met many years ago during one of the early outings with my Winson Brit. and
had kept in touch ever since.
> So that makes a total of four Britannias that I know of having steamed. I
know of four others under construction one of which will steam any day now
and will put mine to shame another of which is being built to truly
exhibition standards (steam operated drain cocks even).
> I had a father and son duo visit me a few weeks ago with a half built
Winson Jubilee. I have little doubt that that too will, in a few years time,
be doing the bizzo. I have also seen several 14xx locos running with varying
degres of success.
> Clearly there will be many more engines out there that I am totally
unaware of.
> I mention all of this to help correct the impression, held by many in the
model engineering world, that these engines cannot be made to run. They
can - if you are prepared to be ruthless in modifying and replacing many of
the supplied parts.
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