Sold May 2023 Back to Archive

A well-advanced project, the engine has come to us from the family of the late builder. Work to date is to an exceptionally high standard and comprises:

• Silver soldered copper boiler
• Front and rear wheels assembled complete with axles, require spokes riveting
• Front end including smokebox with dynamo platform, door and handles, chimney, perch bracket, spring and front axle
• Cylinder block assembly, complete with guide bars and crossheads
• Belly tanks, tender and crane
• Steering gear with steering wheel, worm gear and chain barrel assembly
• Crankshaft with flywheel
• All gearing machined and asssembled, including differential and road gear selector assembly
• Water pump
• Reverser assembly, complete with reach rod and weighshaft
• Connecting rod assemblies
• Valve gear components, including eccentric straps and sheaves, rods and expansion link
• Rear axle spring assemblies
• Quantity loose parts, fasteners and unmachined castings
• Drawings

Parts and castings for the design are available from Reeves.

Still plenty of work to do but little by way of additional expenditure required, with the potential to produce a very fine engine. If you need some inspiration, there are pictures of one of the nicest examples of a "Thetford Town" we've seen in the archive here.