Lot Essay
This locomotive is from a batch of only twenty-four examples assembled from parts discovered in the Northampton workshop at the end of the Second World War
Details
A Bing/Bassett-Lowke steam LMS 4-6-0 'Sir Gilbert Claughton' Locomotive and six-wheel Tender,
No. 5900, painted in lined lake livery, externally-fired boiler and vaporising lamp, with tender spirit reservoir, twin piston-valve cylinders, reverse through central block, smoke box lubricator and usual steam fittings, circa 1945 (locomotive F, some retouching, tender F-G) (2)
No. 5900, painted in lined lake livery, externally-fired boiler and vaporising lamp, with tender spirit reservoir, twin piston-valve cylinders, reverse through central block, smoke box lubricator and usual steam fittings, circa 1945 (locomotive F, some retouching, tender F-G) (2)