Mystery Industrial Loco Model - Solved

[Stentor]

I've just bought this locomotive body off of eBay.

It is made of tinplate and looks to have been carefully assembled. It looks to be 4mm scale.

What I don't know is what it is a model of.

I am guessing a Sentinel of some kind but please can anybody enlighten me?

Thanks for any information.

//Simon 

 

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by Stentor
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[t-b-g]

3 minutes ago, Stentor said:

I've just bought this locomotive body off of eBay.

It is made of tinplate and looks to have been carefully assembled.

What I don't know is what it is a model of.

I am guessing a Sentinel of some kind but please can anybody enlighten me?

Thanks for any information.

//Simon 

 

 

 

The original Borchester layout had a similar looking loco as a shunter for the colliery. There is a photo of it in MRJ edition 27.

 

My memory is that Frank Dyer described building it with a highly improbable Belpaire firebox so that it would fit a Zenith power bogie which was about the only mechanism that could be obtained at the time.

 

This isn't that one but it is very similar and I wonder if somebody saw the Borchester loco and decided to build one like it.

[Adam]

It is, as Tony says, very much in the school of Frank Dyer. It’s based on a 100hp Sentinel but with an additional lump to clear the top of a motor bogie. The real thing had a vertical boiler in the cab so it’s not exactly faithful to the prototype!

 

Adam

 

PS - Frank Dyer’s effort was much more in proportion with the real thing!

Edited August 15, 2021 by Adam

[Paul H Vigor]

2 hours ago, Stentor said:

I've just bought this locomotive body off of eBay.

It is made of tinplate and looks to have been carefully assembled. It looks to be 4mm scale.

What I don't know is what it is a model of.

I am guessing a Sentinel of some kind but please can anybody enlighten me?

Thanks for any information.

//Simon 

 

 

I've recently had a couple of interesting 'might-have-been' loco bodies via ebay. They are well thought out and convincing models. Certainly worthy of a loving home!