May and June we were very busy assembling Staffords - whilst we manufacture components in batches of 12, there isn't really enough room in the current workshop to assemble that many at a time. Six is a good number, however the way the orders and painting ran out, we assembled seven engines in June (the five you see here - the engine low down on a hydraulic bench is our demonstrator, recently returned from loan to a club in exchange for the new red one they'd ordered and a blue one which I delivered a couple of weeks ago). We got these test-steamed, cleaned and packed ready for despatch to release some floor space so that the remaining five could go together in July - these are the chassis you see in the pictures, assembly started in the second week of July, all due for steam test by the boiler inspector at the end of the month, with shipping shortly after.