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6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine - stock code 5336

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6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine
6 inch scale Savage Little Samson traction engine

I'll start at the end with this engine. It came in three weeks ago and I'm really smitten by it - beautifully made, fit and finish is excellent throughout, the paintwork shows just what can be achieved with nothing more than a top quality brush and it runs like a sewing machine.

Steel boiler by Bell Boilers of Gloucester, steel tubes expanded in, 125psi working pressure, feed by injector and crankshaft pump. Twin safety valves, which uniquely in this design exhaust into the chimney, a very civilised arrangement - you barely hear them lift.

The boiler was delivered at the end of 2009, the engine was completed in 2010 and first registered for the road in that year. It has been steamed seven times in total and remains in as-new condition throughout. The work of a talented engineer, who warmed up for this project by building the same engine in 3 inch scale - his log of the build of this one has subsequently been published as a book, which I would recommend whether or not you are planning to build a "Little Samson", it contains a great deal of information useful to building any type of traction engine in a home workshop.

Complete with a set of drawings and double tender-mounted seat, there's a clip of it running outside the workshop here.

Length 7 ft
Width 35 inches
Height 55 inches

scale 6 inch & larger