Steam Dreamer
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Growing up right at the end of the steam era, this author talks about his passion for steam engines, shelved through his working life owing to family commitments but bubbling away vigorously underneath, until he finally decides to build one himself and explains it all.
George Hughes
I'm an everyday English fellow in his late 60's who has a passion for model engineering in steam and writing.
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Steam Dreamer - George Hughes
STEAM DREAMER
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Contents:
Mamod description
Mamod boiler
An idea formed
Build sequence
Completed model
Materials list
Links
Contact me
Samples of books:
The boiler
Front and rear wheel construction
Rear wheel and steering upgrade
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Welcome fellow STEAM DREAMERS
My passion for steam engines started off for me way back from when I was a kid.
I was given a Mamod Steamroller one Christmas as a present, after exploring a real full-size one with my mate about Septemberish one year back in the late 1950’s, and I must have been really excited and gabbing on about it no end right then for me to get a model of my own to play with.
I remember that Bill, (I know, I should really have called him ‘Mister’, but being a cocky kid, he was Bill, the great big pipe-smoking man who drove this roller in the gang of men who were laying the tarmac) well, he’d finished his days work putting the new roads in on a local new estate and had gone off home, only a few doors down from where I lived then, and a few hours later I was out mooching about with my mate Sam.
We’d spotted his roller – I’d be guessing it was a Marshall, but I couldn’t swear to it because of the fogs of time, and it must have been one of the last of the steam engines in use in the UK, for it was only about ten years later that I heard it was off to the scrap yard, so we clambered on board and I was amazed at the width of the back wheels and the thickness of the side plates we had to climb over to get onto where the driver sat under the black, smoky canopy, and also the great mound of coal sat behind the driver’s seat 'cause my dad was always going on about the cost of it, and I honestly thought should I take some home for my mam
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Well, those thoughts soon dissolved in the mist as my eyes landed on all those big, partly black painted, grimy wheels and levers covered in muck and oil everywhere, as I hadn’t a clue what they were for back then, and there seemed to be so many of them it was almost frightening to me, as a spindly kid of around nine or ten years old.
I was in fascination heaven as we played there, absorbing the heat, getting grimy as hell and pretending to be laying the tarmac with this giant monster of a machine, and sitting in the big bum-shaped seat I couldn’t even reach the levers or the floor, but I still nervously imagined myself driving it round the roads, gliding smoothly just off the edge of the kerb amidst great clouds of white smoke, just like I’d seen the men doing, and pushing the tarmac down to perfection.
I was mesmerised! I was enthralled! I was swallowed deeply, hook, line and sinker into all mechanical things, especially with the steam