{"product_id":"2-inch-scale-burrell-gold-medal-tractor-stock-code-2695","title":"2 inch scale Burrell Gold Medal tractor","description":"One of the best bits of my job is getting to meet some very interesting   people. Two years ago I visited a retired engineer on the South Coast who had   spent thirty years in industry, working in the inspection department of an   engineering company. His own workshop, as you might expect, was well equipped -   what really impressed me, however, was the sheer volume of work he turned out.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    I spent a very enjoyable morning there looking at locomotives, traction engines   and one of almost everything that Stuart produce in the stationary engine line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Later in the year I bought a pair of three inch scale Burrells that he had built   - \u003ca href=\"\/products\/3-inch-burrell-with-driving-trolley-stock-code-2292\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eone is on the archive\u003c\/a\u003e   the other didn't stay long enough even to have its photograph taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    This engine is a Burrell Gold Medal tractor, built using the MJ Engineering drawings   and castings, in compound, Showmans tractor guise. Certainly the finest Gold   Medal I've ever seen, one of the two finest 2 inch scale engines I've ever   bought (the other was a Fowler Scenic Showmans that I am going to get back one   day, I've made my mind up...).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Built to an exceptional standard throughout, it   was completely assembled, steamed and had a boiler certificate issued. It was   then stripped, painted and lined out since when it hasn't been fired again. It   took a Silver Medal and the prestigious Aveling-Barford Trophy at the Model   Engineer Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Copper silver-solder boiler, feed by injector and   mechanical pump with bypass. Compound cylinder block with simpling valve, slide   valves actuated by Stephenson's valve gear with pole reverser on footplace. Two   speed transmission, road wheels rubber-tyred over strakes as prototype. Working   replica Mather \u0026amp; Platt dynamo, the canopy lights can also be illuminated for   display with a purpose built transformer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The engine is mounted on a purpose   built carrying stand, with detachable handles and a fitted cloth cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a   lot of point in rabbiting on about this one, the pictures say it all and will   repay close study, to see how a master model builder sets about the job.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020021027157,"sku":"2695","price":7950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/2695-1.webp?v=1779909696","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/2-inch-scale-burrell-gold-medal-tractor-stock-code-2695","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}