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An exceptionally well-built Fowler road locomotive in 2 inch scale to the Plastow design. Work to date comprises:

• New silver-soldered copper boiler by Morewood with certification

• Hornplates machined and fitted to boiler

• Back axle complete with winch drum and differential

• Wheels complete with hub caps and bonded on rubber tyres, rear tyres over strakes

• Smokebox, chimney and dynamo platform, smokebox door with fittings and maker's plate

• Perch bracket and front axle with leaf springing

• Crankboxes machined, fitted with bearings and caps

All work to date is to an excellent standard, the rivet work on the wheels and hornplates is immaculately executed.

Complete with a box of unmachined castings, including the cylinder block, flywheel, gear blanks, crankshaft, eccentric straps, steering and brake wheels, glands, motion brackets, a large quantity of smaller parts and a set of drawings.

This makes up into a large model for 2 inch scale, around four feet long and very definitely a two man lift.