A BR Standard Class 4 Tender Engine PART 3

Continued from p.394 M.E.4751 September 6 In part 2, photos 5 to 8 were reproduced by courtesy of Toddington Standard Loco Ltd. We can now get on with something a bit more interesting - the frame stretchers (fig 4). Starting at the front of the engine we need a set of angles to fit inside the buffer beams (fig 5). The problem here is that when I ordered twenty lengths of brass angle from one of the wholesalers last time, none of it was square so I had to put it all through the milling machine and some of it was only 1/32 inch thick at the outside edge, which I thought was rubbish. Couldn’t someone have checked this at the depot don’t you think? - or did they think…

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