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Dr. Peter Clark


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I have some very sad news. Earlier today, after a period of ill
health, Peter Clark died peacefully at home.

It's very hard to summarise in a few words what Peter has done for the
model railway and model engineering hobbies. Peter's primary model
railway, or rather railroad, interest was in American narrow gauge and
he was an early practitioner of Nn3. He is also well known for
organising the machine shop demo which appeared at several of the
Model Railway Club's Easter exhibitions.

Peter was a frequent winner of gold medals at the Model Engineer
exhibition and typically of Peter, he kept the certificates on the
walls of the smallest room of the house!

Many of us have benefitted directly from Peter's generosity of time
and expertise. He advised on many 2mm Scale Association projects
where engineering input was required.

In his professional life, Peter was a much respected member of the
medical professsion.

We shall miss him greatly and remember him with much affection. He
leaves two sons and to them and their families, we offer our sincere
condolences.

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Dear all,

Very sad news.

I remember Peter as a quiet man, a brilliant engineer and the proud designer and maker of the "Mangle" which still produces the curved fiddle yard track for Copenhagen Fields. That was a mechanical tour de force. He will be sadly missed.

John

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Definitely a sad loss to those who knew him and to 2mm scale modelling as a whole.

 

I am one of the many people who benefitted from Peter’s helpfulness and generosity. I well remember the couple of occasions when I was allowed the freedom of his workshop facilities at the old IMREX shows. I still have the bending bars that I made there, which caused much amusement because, in my innocence, I had chosen to make them out of some pieces of copper tungsten. Not the ideal material, but they have nevertheless lasted well. 

 

Peter was always innovative and was good at finding ways of building affordable tools or improving existing ones. He once made a new tool post in aluminium and brass for the plastic Unimat 1, which I showed some interest in because I also had such a lathe. Without asking, he then produced a second set of parts for the tool holder for me and refused any form of payment. This was typically generous of Peter. On another occasion, I sent him an e-mail asking him where I could source some Delrin rod. I received no reply but a few days later a little package dropped through my letterbox, containing a quantity of said material and a note asking if there was enough!

 

Peter also made some small batches of specialist tools for 2mm Scale Association members, including a miniature marking gauge and a shooting board for chamfering styrene sheet. Both of these tools I now consider to be indispensable and are still very much in use. In future, when I pick them up, I will always be reminded of a humorous, inventive and kind man.

 

David

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Peter’s efforts are literally what holds Copenhagen Fields together. My abiding memory of Peter is that whenever finishing metal work, always make sure the scratches are in the same direction!

 

Tim

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Last week, I was able to get a picture of the famous "mangle", designed and built by Peter to form the strip track used round the back of Copenhagen Fields.

 

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Without this, making the fiddle yards would have been very difficult.

 

Mark

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