Details
'Fire King' -- a unique 7¼in. gauge 2-2-2 locomotive, similar to the GWR Broad Gauge Firefly class signed and dated Josiah Evans Handock 1841 -- 19 x 28¾in. (48.2 x 73cm.)
With brass bound wood lagged copper boiler with fittings including level test cocks, salter safety valve, whistle, regulator and other valves. Chassis details include twin inside cylinders with eccentric and rocking lever operated valves, studded stuffing boxes, twin crosshead driven feed pumps, wedged and cottered barrelled connecting rods with split brasses and facetted cranks, fletched riveted frames with wooden buffer beam, the buffers engraved 'J Brown's Patent Atlas Steel Works Sheffield' and working leaf springs. Further details include square headed hand made nuts and bolts, brass topped footplate hand rails, original grate with round firebars and finely cast wheels. Finished in original black and polished brightwork and with traces of green on the boiler lagging. Original display base. (Cleaning was carried out by the National Railway Museum, York)
NOTE: Josiah Evans (1820-1873) was apprenticed to Jones Turner and Evans, Viaduct Foundry, Haydock 1837-40 as Engineer and Drawing Master. By 1850 the firm had become Richard Evans & Co. and Josiah and his brother Joseph were made partners with their father Richard. Josiah was responsible for the engineering and foundry side of the rapidly expanding business and between 1868 and 1887 Haydock Foundry built six 0-6-0 well tank locomotives for use on the colliery lines incorporating Josiah Evans' own design of piston valves, the first time this type of valve had been used successfully. One of these locos, 'Bellerophon' (1874) is now owned, preserved and operated on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway by the Vintage Carriages Trust, and is believed to be the oldest operating locomotive.
TO BE SOLD AT CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENSINGTON
TRANSPORT MEMORABILIA AND MODELS, 11th August 1994 at 10.30am
estimate 30,000 - 40,000
With brass bound wood lagged copper boiler with fittings including level test cocks, salter safety valve, whistle, regulator and other valves. Chassis details include twin inside cylinders with eccentric and rocking lever operated valves, studded stuffing boxes, twin crosshead driven feed pumps, wedged and cottered barrelled connecting rods with split brasses and facetted cranks, fletched riveted frames with wooden buffer beam, the buffers engraved 'J Brown's Patent Atlas Steel Works Sheffield' and working leaf springs. Further details include square headed hand made nuts and bolts, brass topped footplate hand rails, original grate with round firebars and finely cast wheels. Finished in original black and polished brightwork and with traces of green on the boiler lagging. Original display base. (Cleaning was carried out by the National Railway Museum, York)
NOTE: Josiah Evans (1820-1873) was apprenticed to Jones Turner and Evans, Viaduct Foundry, Haydock 1837-40 as Engineer and Drawing Master. By 1850 the firm had become Richard Evans & Co. and Josiah and his brother Joseph were made partners with their father Richard. Josiah was responsible for the engineering and foundry side of the rapidly expanding business and between 1868 and 1887 Haydock Foundry built six 0-6-0 well tank locomotives for use on the colliery lines incorporating Josiah Evans' own design of piston valves, the first time this type of valve had been used successfully. One of these locos, 'Bellerophon' (1874) is now owned, preserved and operated on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway by the Vintage Carriages Trust, and is believed to be the oldest operating locomotive.
TO BE SOLD AT CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENSINGTON
TRANSPORT MEMORABILIA AND MODELS, 11th August 1994 at 10.30am
estimate 30,000 - 40,000
Provenance
: By direct descent