He explains me the option he proposed to convince your Ministry of Finance ;) , we will be very happy to see you and show you our boats and workshop, and Paris and/or Versailles where I live:) Hello Thierry Yes I think the opportunity to come and see you and the boats and workshops in Paris or Vers...

One point about this design, it has what may be regarded as a short stroke by steam engine standards. This seems to be a direction that the English designers started to go back in the days of steam launches. A guy here in Auckland has a lovely little Simpson Strickland triple that also has quite a ...

Midship wrote:Hello Malcom

I was with Bruno during the WE, he was checking all the castings

Thierry

Excellent Thierry - I think I have persuaded the "houshold powers" that this is a good use of funds!

Hi. I am also building one of these engines. A while back I had a chat with John Griffiths, owner of Tenacity (which is featured on the back cover of Camdens booklet about building the engine). He gave me some very useful advice about the building of the engine, errors in the drawings and modificat...

Hello A friend of mine owns a set of castings for this engine and could sell them to you If you are interested please contact him by mail or phone Bruno Martin-Neuville bmartin.neuville@noos.fr +33145864033 mobile +33682416034 (he speaks english ;) ) Kind regards Thierry thanks Thierry, I have sent...

Hi Mal, I am building one of these engines currently. I have 'graduated' from a model engineering background - sold my steam lorry and got stuck in. I don't know where you are based, but I am in the UK, so became a member of the SBA. They're a nice group of guys who are really knowledgeable, friend...

I wouldn't mind having that engine in my boat. looks well designed and aesthetically pleasing. -Ron I agree Ron, it looks nice and well designed, there was one on display at the model engineer's exhibition in London last xmas. It was an outstanding job with so many bells and whistles and a fabulous...

John, I will certainly look into the course, and I will also keep the community in touch with my (somewhat slow) progress

Well thankyou all!

A flurry of information.

this is omminous! a complete silence - are these engines the albatros of the steam boating world, and no one is prepared to speak of their awfulness?