Details
A model live steam 2 H.P. three wheel passenger car, of circa 1869, built by W. Hatswell, 1995, with brazed copper vertical centre flue crosstube boiler with water and pressure gauges, safety, injector, blower and clack valves and blowdown plug, regulator and steam lines to twin small bore cylinders with displacement lubricators, disc cranks and chain and band drive to rear axle. Chassis details include wooden spoked wheels with metal tyres and separate spokes and fellies, hand lever and quadrant steering, working leaf springs, injector, coal bunkers, water tank, tool box and canopy, finished in black, varnish and polished brightwork -- 15½ x 15in. (39.5 x 38cm.). Boiler certificate d/d 1.12.95. Firing shovel
Literature
c.f. The Engineer, Highlight of 120 Years, p. 126. Editor John Mortimer, Nov. 1976.