Model Engineer - 4602

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Brian Baker recalls a summer of memorable rallies at the Echills Wood Railway in Warwickshire and urges you to visit if you have not done so before.
Graham Astbury explores Llandudno and takes up a trip up to the Great Orme on the cable-hauled tramway, which is unique in the UK in sharing its track with the public roads.
Chris Gunn completes the canopy supports for his six inch Garrett 4CD tractor.
Martin Gearing begins the manufacture of a set of fittings for the ME vertical boiler and Terence Holland discusses the cab fittings for his Barclay well tank.
Julie Williams reports on what is possibly the most diverse and entertaining event of its kind – the Lowestoft Model Engineering Exhibition.
Duncan Webster concludes his discussion of locomotive balancing by considering the balancing of inside cylinder locomotives.
Mike Tilby discusses the relative merits of Parsons and de Laval turbines and explains why steam turbines, and other heat engines, cannot be as efficient as we may think they ought to be.
Graham Sadler describes a simple dividing attachment to fit the headstock of your lathe.
John Arrowsmith completes his survey of the competition classes at the recent Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition.