5 Inch Gauge "GWR Manor Class" R'No 7800. An extremely well ...

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£2,000 - £3,000

5 Inch Gauge "GWR Manor Class" R'No 7800. An extremely well engineered 5 inch gauge live steam 4-6-0 G.W.R Manor Class tender locomotive built to a Martin Evans "Torquay Manor" Design - chassis with a silver soldered boiler first tested in 1991 to 80 psi working pressure, water feed from usual injector plus via hand pump in the tender. Chassis with breaking equipment, gunmetal cylinders actuated by Stephenson's valve gear, all buffers, couplings, steps to cab etc, twin safety valves (bonnet missing) - comprehensive backhead with usual controls and ancillaries etc. Nameplates to splashes, R/No 7800 to cab - tender unlettered. The six wheel tender has extensive rivet work, sprung, wheels, braking system and the water tank with hand pump. Overall condition of the loco' and GWR green paint is very good, last steamed we believe 23/24 years ago - she will require decommissioning and minor TLC to body fittings (loose boiler rails etc). With the loco is a good quantity of ephemera, plans, plus boiler certification etc, provenance suggests the model was built circa 1990ish by David Moseley (a Member of Sutton Coldfield Eng' Soc') who went on to build 7.25 inch models of which we have two in the auction.1st of class built 01/38 to a collett design - withdrawn 1964 - scrapped at Cashmode's, nine of the class in preservation. Locomotive length 40 inch - tender 24inch (64 inch)