[modeleng] Re: "Pecket # 1694 of 1925."
- From: "Bob Logan" <boblogan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:33:45 +1300
Thanks Al, although the picture I have is of a 2' NG 0 - 4 - 0, side tank
loco, If my scanner was working, I would send pic, my computer fixer upper
is away, sorry.
Bob.
----- Original Message -----
From: "alanjstepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 10:11 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: "Pecket # 1694 of 1925."
> I have just been looking through some data on Pecket's.
>
> The firm started as Fox, Walker & Co, in 1864 and catered for industrial
> requirements. They built mainly 4 and 6 coupled tank locomotives.
>
> Thomas Pecket took control of the company in 1890, and trading as Pecket
and
> Sons, retained the works at Atlas Engine Works, Bristol.
>
> The closest class number to the one you mention, is the 1691 class (or
type)
> which were built from 1925 onwards.
> These were 0-6-0 saddle tank engines, with inside cylinders of 13" x 18".
> Driving wheels were 3ft 0.5" dia, the wheelbase was 10 ft, and the weight
> was 28 tons 10 cwt.
> These were standard gauge engines, which carried 800 gallons of water,
> andthe boiler had a working pressure of 170 psi.
>
> They standardised as many items as possible. Thus the 0-4-0 engines
supplied
> to GKN were similar, as were the 1094 class of 0-6-0 tanks.
>
> Newton St Cyres is a small village in Devon, in the south-western
peninsular
> of England. (Not far from Clif and Roger). I imagine the quarry would have
> been for stone, perhaps granite, as it is on the edge of Dartmoor which is
> the remains of a long-extinct volcano, and hence granite is common in that
> area.
>
> alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> www.alanstepney.info
> Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway technical pages.
> .
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Logan" <boblogan@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 4:32 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: "Pecket # 1694 of 1925."
>
>
> Hello All,
> I have a picture of Pecket # 1694 of 1925, and it was in Newton St Cyres,
> Great Britain, in a clay pit or stone quarry. Dismantled/scrapped in 1945.
>
> Does anybody have Pecket information, or who the owners were?
>
> This loco was very shy, only one photo was taken, my pic is a copy.
>
> Bob L,
> in New Zealand.
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