Live Steam Royal Scot in ‘O’ Gauge

[DanumParticipant @danum]

Does anyone know of a current supplier of castings for the O Gauge Live Steam Royal Scot described by Martin Evans , currently available in the PDFs describing ‘Minnie’.

 

Much Googling revealed Kennion Bros. to have originally produced the drawings(?) and casting (now defunct?) while further googling revealed that GLR seemed to hold the ‘rights’ to the castings although they do not show up on their website. I have emailed them to see if they still produce the castings but no reply so far.

 

Any help gratefully received!

 

Thank you.

 

PS This is a good website of a build, albeit in Gauge 1, of a live steam Royal Scot based/scaled-up on the design.

http://members.chello.nl/e.stroetinga/Royal%20Scot.htm

(Wish I could speak a foreign language half as good as this chap can speak/write English!)

 

PPS Is this a Martin Evans design? A Severn-Lamb design? Or Mr Evans re-interpretation of a Severn-Lamb design?

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[DanumParticipant @danum]

[John BaguleyParticipant @johnbaguley78655]

I was going to build a RC version of one of these a few years back but then moved up to bigger gauges so it didn’t get started.

 

I got the full size drawings from GLR but IIRC at the time they could not supply any of the castings. I finished up buying the wheel castings from Alan Harris. Superb quality but not cheap (about £150 for the complete set).

 

It shouldn’t be too much of a problem to fabricate cylinders etc or machine them from the solid. There is very little on any loco that you really need castings for.

 

The original loco was built by Severn Lamb for a French client but it was designed by Martin Evans.

 

John

[DanumParticipant @danum]

Hi.

 

Thanks for the response Mr Baguley.

 

GLR have now very kindly rung me up to say they don’t do the ‘O’ Gauge anymore. A problem with obtaining the wheels apparently. Nice to know that some Firm’s do value customer service and respond to emails even though there is nothing in it for them.

 

I’m glad there is a forum like this to obtain and share information. keep up the good work.

 

PS Re another topic on here I had a Chinese lathe but swiftly sold it on due to many reasons – noise, misaligned gears, tailstock, poor chuck etc. The list goes on. Now saving hard for a Speed 10!

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

Wallsall Model industries do Gauge 1 wheels.

regards David

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