Brian Hollingsworth wrote and published this biography of the most famous of all model locomotive designers and writers in , and we we published this edition, which is also intended as a Memorial to Brian in It has long been out of print.
And he built 55 small steam locomotives himself. But what made him famous was his style of writing - informative, opinionated and down to earth, they gave the ordinary man the confidence to realise that he could build models if he wanted to, and then told him how to do this. To see photos of this historic locomotive see John Baguley's website.
LBSC then wrote construction articles for various British model engineering magazines from until , very shortly before his death, including nearly 2, articles for Model Engineer Magazine from January initially in the form of letters to the Editor and then from April as a full-time contributor to May and then again from January until October During this time, LBSC designed different locomotives, ranging from 0 gauge up to 5 inch gauge, building over 50 himself.
Many of these designs are still available today as sets of drawings, and some were later produced in book form,. Before LBSC started publishing in the s, model locomotive practice had been divided into two camps. These latter locomotives were usually run in realistic looking garden railway layouts hauling groups of model carriages around the track. The advent of LBSC's designs that could haul their full size drivers, although a lot less realistic than a "model" railway, were much more fun.
It was LBSC's contention that any person with enough desire could build a working steam locomotive. Many of his designs were based on actual engines, though they were usually modified and often simplified for the home builder. All were robust in nature and good performers. His notes on various aspects of locomotive construction were compiled into a book called "Shop, Shed, and Road", first published in still considered to be a standard reference for the model engineer.
Through his articles LBSC introduced many enthusiasts to the joys of machine shop work and miniature steam locomotives. The result was so successful that LBSC spent the rest of his life designing and building model locomotives, traction engines, model machinery of all types, and describing how to build them in articles for The Model Engineer.
LBSC had a gift for describing complicated operations in simple terms. But he had successors. At this time my bookshelves contain none of LBSC's articles, though I read them passionately at the time, before I could afford a machine shop of my own. However, I own two books by K. Harris on model steam engines and steam boilers. Harris writes about himself in the introduction to the book on steam engines.
On the model side, I have been building them for over fifty years, so that I can at least claim to have had a fairly extensive practical experience of the subject. These model engineers were up-to-date as well as nostalgic. About there was discussion of how to form a Diesel exhaust valve into a turbine rotor one inch in diameter. When discussion turned to how much easier it would be to make it of aluminium three inches in diameter, running at the same tip speed to match the steam pressure, the originator confessed that his long-term ambition was a gas turbine engine, for which the high-temperature endurance of the exhaust valve material would be required.
The turbine wheel was part of a project for turbine drive for a steam vessel capable of taking the speed record away from the reciprocating-powered current record holder. That record was 76 m. The boats had names such as Vesuvius IX, such names demonstrating the frequency of mechanical and thermal disasters.
Keith Stewart was no slouch in modern engineering. He was aching to get on with the experimental work, but first he had to write the last installment of his serial upon the Congreve clock.
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