Help identfying a loco Body

[mozzer models]

Digging throw a box of all of my old bits & bobs

I have come across a loco body A 3/4F but i am after the makers name

the footplate/boiler is a one peace casting with a slot on cab & bolt on chinney & dome In side the cab & body is the mark S-R

 

Can Anyone help

[Burkitt]

S-R is likely Stewart Reidpath, the early OO manufacturer.

 

Paul

[bertiedog]

Stewart Reidpath of Herne Bay in Kent, it is the comparatively rarer lead cast LMS 060 Tender loco, designed to fit the split plate solid brass S-R chassis, with an Essar 3 pole twin magnet motor, and fine scale cast brass wheels to 00 or EM gauge.

 

The scale of the die cast body is 4mm, the S-R cast Tank engines were made in HO, and then modified to 00 size. The LMS tender Loco was scale 4mm, and reasonably accurate.

 

Tenders for these have been on Ebay within the last year, and a modern loco chassis could very easily be fitted, which with the weight of the cast body would run fine.

 

Suitable Essar mechanisms have also turned up on Ebay, if the wheel base is wrong it can be altered, that was the nature of the chassis, near universal. Most were two rail, three rail was special order only.

 

The brass moulds were made in about 1946, but few were sold until post war trade restrictions came off about 1950/51, by which time Hamblings owned the company. As the Herne Bay factory closed in the early 1950's, the moulds for this loco appear to have vanished.

 

These particular castings make up well with modern fittings added, at the time it was left to the builder to supply the finer standard pieces needed, but fully sprung scale LMS buffers were made, suitable turned chimneys, fine hand rail knobs, although a lot of people used half round wire and "formed" handrail knobs.

 

The cab casting makes fitting a full backhead difficult, but this was designed for the motor end to project into the cab, and the backhead portrayed by the end of the magnet housing. The casting could be cleaned up and a modern cast backhead fitted, or a scratchbuilt one made to suit.

 

Brake shoes would be cast metal, SR had their own, or Sayer Chaplin made plated cast ones, made in a universal fitting, left and right in one, with parts removed to make each side

 

Stephen.

[geoffers]

Bertiedog - what a fantastic post. I have learnt something this morning. Thanks a mill for that.

[mozzer models]

Thanks for the info that is very helpfull