{"product_id":"6-inch-gauge-gnr-atlantic-stock-code-6975","title":"Historic 6 inch gauge GNR Atlantic","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eAn interesting old engine, a survivor from the early days of the twentieth century when this 6 inch gauge Atlantic was allegedly built for H.A.Ivatt, designer of the prototype. It has all the looks of a works built engine, with finely detailed chassis, including counter-balanced weighshaft, elegantly sculpted eccentric straps and prototypical big end arrangement for the connecting rods.\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eOn Ivatt's death it passed to his son-in-law, Oliver Bulleid - by then CME of the Southern Railway. In turn, it then passed to his son, H.A.V.Bulleid and features in his book \"Master Builders of Steam\", with a super period photograph of his daughters (O.V.S.Bulleid's grand-daughters, H.A.Ivatt's great grand-daughters) driving it on their garden railway.\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eAt some stage the original boiler - almost certainly flanged and rivetted in copper - failed. Tragically it has been discarded, a clumsily proportioned replacement in steel with modern fittings has been made (but mercifully not yet fitted).\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eI've held onto this engine for some years - it's a project I'd like to do; it's certainly a project I'd hate to see anybody else do unsympathetically. It really needs conservation - the original metal I would regard as sacrosanct (rather like the rebuild we did of the Heywood locomotive \"Katie\", where the original frames were treated like religious artefacts!).\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eIt's complete with a lethal looking motorized driving trolley; an envelope addressed to H.A.V.Bulleid and recycled by him to contain some hand written notes on firing the engine and his track; a copy of Bulleid's book \"Master Builders of Steam\" containing a picture of his daughters - Ivatt's grand-daughters - driving the Atlantic and a hardback copy of the biography of O.V.S.Bulleid.\u003cbr\u003e      \u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020068180309,"sku":"6975","price":2350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/6975-1.webp?v=1779910363","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/6-inch-gauge-gnr-atlantic-stock-code-6975","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}