Sold September 2005 Back to Archive

I make no warranties on this lot, it's not even my junk but a fellow model engineer's!

A very nicely made set of frames, horns and smokebox for a 5 inch gauge LMS 0-6-0T to Austen-Walton's "Twin Sisters" design. Beautifully put together, neatly rivetted throughout, good machining - there's just not much of it yet! However, included is another box full of castings and machined bits and pieces. Now some of these are clearly nothing to do with the 0-6-0 (the front bogie and great big coupling rods look a bit suspicious for a start). Other bits look more likely, including a set of cylinders with end covers in cast iron and a pair of machined motion brackets. Altogether about half a hundredweight of "stuff" which, rather to my surprise, DHL claim to be able to deliver in the UK for £10.

I haven't got a picture of a good finished "Twin Sisters" - the only other one I've sold was a restoration job, listed in the archive. I'm sure the new owner will send me a picture of it in ex-works condition when he's finished the latest in his series of full-size standard gauge rebuilds.