{"product_id":"compound-launch-engine-professionally-machined-set-of-parts-stock-code-7865","title":"Compound launch engine - professionally machined set of parts","description":"The majority of - if not all - machined parts for a full-sized compound launch engine, the work of a highly-regarded model engineer responsible for a number of well-known, museum quality locomotives.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    In addition to his work building the finest quality models, some thirty years ago he produced a design and manufactured parts for a small batch of launch engines. Several were assembled, selling at the time for around £6,000 each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The remaining sets of parts were stored away at the back of the workshop, where they remained until we visited some years ago to collect two locomotives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Having decided that, by now, he was unlikely ever to assemble them (the current project at the time - one of the finest beam engines I've seen - was at that time taking all of his attention, with a pair of well-advanced 10 1\/4 inch gauge locomotives under the bench for when he'd finished) the decision was made to pass them on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Work to date is to an excellent standard, the castings finely made and elegantly proportioned, cast from his own patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Complete with a set of drawings, we have three sets of these available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54009997459797,"sku":"7865","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/7865-1.webp?v=1779899892","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/compound-launch-engine-professionally-machined-set-of-parts-stock-code-7865","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}