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Oh well!
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17 years ago
Did I miss something here?
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Yes I put on a brass plate someone gave me and how I came by it that may have come from the williams shaft whim engine, I went to edit the post a day later and it just disappeared (don't know what i pressed), I didn't have time yesterday to put it back on (I sell locomotives so had a lot to do), and no one had replied anyway so I thought it must be wrong so didn't bother putting it back up.
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Vanoord
17 years ago
"ICLOK" wrote:

(I sell locomotives so had a lot to do)



:offtopic: I know, but what sort?!
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Roy Morton
17 years ago
Any A4 Pacifics surplus to requirements....? I'll have the blue one! 🙂
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Very Big Ones.... Just sold the old virgin trains fleet to Bulgaria (28 x 5050HP electric loco's) and am looking at buying a very large diesel fleet in the far east ... may be 30 x 3200HP EMD locomotives to start. All sorts really, I have around 5 deals in the pipeline so pulled out at mo :surrender: . Railways and Mining are my two biggest interests, I'm very interested in BR steam (particularly LMS and GWR) and have approx 180 steam locomotive plates including a Beyer Peacock off an LMS Garratt (47989). Hence why I was thrilled to get the Holman plate in 1998.... :thumbup:
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17 years ago
No... but I've got a nice A3 with Vitt Smoke Deflectors.... Flying something or other!!! 😉
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Vanoord
17 years ago
Ah, big ones then! First I need a big enough garden, then I need to find a nice little quarry Hunslett and take the cab off... 😎

Somewhere I've got five shares in the Padarn Lake Railway, which I was given at the tender age of two (or thereabouts) - trouble is, they've pandered to the needs of drivers (!) and put cabs on theirs which rather wrecks the 'original' look. I suspect it's also got something to do with keeping kiddies happy, which may have something to do with why Wild Aster is now called Thomas Bach :blink:
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Roy Morton
17 years ago
An interesting plate.
The Dolcoath Traversing winder at Williams Shaft was fitte with 2 x 24 inch cylinders with a 60" stroke (Barton, The Cornish Beam Engine))
It seems later (1911) it had an upgrade to 28" cylinders (TR Harris, Dolcoath Queen of Cornish Mines)
I would have thought that that plate could be traced through the records at CRO Truro. Holmans kept loads of drawings and stuff. 🙂
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so could be off owt then?
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I love the quarry Hunslets and know the man who still builds them. I am hoping we will have 2 in steam next Saturday on his Statfold barn Railway.... I go twice a year and its a fabulous day out with the IRS with lots of narrow gauge loco variants and lots of good photo opps. If you are going to have a garden railway that's the one. :thumbsup:
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JohnnearCfon
17 years ago
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Ah, big ones then! First I need a big enough garden, then I need to find a nice little quarry Hunslett and take the cab off... 😎

Somewhere I've got five shares in the Padarn Lake Railway, which I was given at the tender age of two (or thereabouts) - trouble is, they've pandered to the needs of drivers (!) and put cabs on theirs which rather wrecks the 'original' look. I suspect it's also got something to do with keeping kiddies happy, which may have something to do with why Wild Aster is now called Thomas Bach :blink:



Dolbadarn (originally No2) was built with a cab, as were No1 (sometime Lady Joan) and Michael.
Vanoord
17 years ago
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Dolbadarn (originally No2) was built with a cab, as were No1 (sometime Lady Joan) and Michael.



Were the ones used on the more exposed galleries fitted with cabs or am I just imagining that? From a visibility point of view I'd suggest the cab would have been a pain, but in weather like this I reckon the driver would have been thanking several deities!
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On the subject of these amazing little loco's... heres one I took recently in the workshops at Llanberis, I just love the atmosphere.
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Roy Morton
17 years ago
Ref. Llanberis Photo.
I give it 5 ***** No two ways about it.
Roy.M


PS. I saw quite a few garretts out in South Africa (1980) in various conditions from running to being used for spares. Makers plates on them all.... wish I'd had a spanner!
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Roy Morton
17 years ago
I think the brass plate is a beauty. You don't see very much old Holman's kit in Cornwall. apart from a 1912 stone crusher outside the now defunct Climax factory near Tesco's.
I've got a few of these I've manged to collect here and there. Maybe of interest. I think the type setting and graphics are great. A bygone era that's for sure.

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I have a few plates from SAR loco's, I have an RSH from a 1947 2-8-2 and a Neilson Reid from 1900 of another 2-8-2.

I built the new loco wheels for the 9E electrics in South Africa. I was based at Nigel....

The Holman plate is nice, I was chuffed when the guy just gave it me.

Thanks for comment on photo.

Re the advertising stuff, it fantastic ... I would love to collect it, but my missus puts up with too much now....

I've got a few Cornish pennies which I love, just want a Tavistock.
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carnkie
17 years ago
Some years ago a scale model of the Williams Engine was made by Holmans and used to be in the Holmans Museum. Question is, where is it now?
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King Edward Mine in storage... thats what I was told 18 months ago when I was there... I offered them this plate... which is a good job they did not accept as its not what I thought it was.

Reg ICLOk :thumbup:
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Roy Morton
17 years ago
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It seems after a little reading that the plate came off the winding engine at Robinsons Shaft South Crofty. Barton mentions that the engine had two 22" cylinders with a 4 foot stroke, worked on 125 psi steam pressure and was built in 1907 by Holman Bros.
I dare say with a bit more digging I'll Find out what they mean by TYPE W.
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