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Post by delaplume on Oct 23, 2020 19:39:07 GMT
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Post by ettingtonliam on Oct 23, 2020 19:51:35 GMT
Is that a known published design?
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Post by mbrown on Oct 23, 2020 20:27:15 GMT
Mike Casey's "Peveril" - described briefly in Don Young's LLAS was for 3.5"g, so this is probably to someone's own design as I don't know of any other published IoM designs.
Malcolm
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Post by delaplume on Oct 23, 2020 20:49:54 GMT
I've just sent a letter asking for more clarification....Will keep you informed........would make a nice loco in 5" I'd have thought ??
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Post by delaplume on Oct 23, 2020 22:12:36 GMT
I've just sent a letter asking for more clarification....Will keep you informed........would make a nice loco in 5" I'd have thought ?? Well that was quick !!---------- here's the reply as copied from the listing}------- "Hi It is a 5 inch gauge Isle of Man Beyer Peacock Locomotive, drawings and castings by Ashdown Models built by me. Cheers Ian " Can't find Ashdown Models on search although the name seems to ring a bell !! |
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Post by Jim Woods on Oct 24, 2020 6:38:48 GMT
Hello. Mike Casey's design is 5 inch gauge. Mike told me many years ago now he gave his patterns to Ashdown models. There was a fire at the foundry and the patterns where lost. When i built my version (number5 Mona) I had to get my father to make new patterns. Mikes design makes a very good model that goes really well.
Regards Jim
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Post by osiris09 on Oct 24, 2020 7:15:30 GMT
Ashdown was in Sussex. Blackness road, crowborough to be exact. Gone now but had been looking for them myself in the search for info on a loco that came from there.
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Post by Cro on Oct 24, 2020 8:44:55 GMT
Ashdown was in Sussex. Blackness road, crowborough to be exact. Gone now but had been looking for them myself in the search for info on a loco that came from there. Having been from Crowborough and in the hobby for the last 20 years and living very near blackness road, I’d never heard of them so I think they may have been gone a while. |
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Post by osiris09 on Oct 24, 2020 10:37:20 GMT
The letter I have from them regarding a loco is early to mid 70's if I recall. I knew it was a long shot and when google didn't find anything I knew it must have been closed a while.
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Post by delaplume on Oct 24, 2020 11:18:29 GMT
Hello all,
and many thanks to you all for those great responses.....I'm 71 and have been actively involved in ME since age 14 when the school's Metalwork master started a Wednesday "after hours" ME club....My very first task was to overhaul a 2.5" gauge Purley Grange bogie........Yes,I vaguely remember the name Ashdown Models but it's that mention of the Foundry fire that really strikes a chord......Must have been big news at the time.........I wonder if there is anything in the ME magazine archives about it ??
I hope the vendor ( Ian ) finds a good home for the embryo loco.........I love travelling on the full size when at the IoM TT races and would dearly love to buy this and finish it off.......Alas I already have a 5" GWR Mogul rolling chassis and tender awaiting my delicate touch so must pass it by.....
Hello Jim Woods in Dunedin, NZ}---- any chance you could publish a full size photo of your avatar ??......It'll give folk a good idea of how the finished article looks -----
Alan
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Post by John Baguley on Oct 24, 2020 13:45:35 GMT
There's one in the Station Road Steam archives with plenty of photos. Just search for 'Peveril'
John
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Post by delaplume on Oct 24, 2020 13:58:57 GMT
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Post by mbrown on Oct 24, 2020 14:05:09 GMT
"My bad", as they say, remembering the gauge of Peveril wrongly.
I built my little Bagnall when living in Kent. I wasn't a member of a club and needed the boiler testing. Ashdown Models obliged for a fiver. In fact, by the time the loco was finished, the certificate had run out so I had to join a club, but by then I had moved. That was 1982 and I
think Ashdown Models closed soon after.
As far as I know, Peveril was the only loco design they handled, but they were early in the transfer market and did lining tapes and a good range of transfers before most other suppliers caught up.
Malcolm
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