687 SMOKE RINGS News, views & comment on the world of model engineering.688 POST BAG Letters to the editor.690 FREELANCE BEAM ENGINE FRIVOLITY Martin Ranson shows you how to build a beam engine from scrap parts.695 NORTHUMBRIAN
- A SECOND LOOK AT RAINHILL Tony Weale starts on the cylinders.698 SHAND MASON STEAM FIRE ENGINE IN 1:6 SCALE Gunter Kallies makes a start on the boiler.702 SCRATCHBUILDING STATIC SCALE MODEL AIRCRAFT Alan Clark describes his model aircraft.704 FAIR ROSAMUND A GWR 517 CLASS ENGINE Neville Evans continues with the hornblocks, axleboxes, coupling & connecting rods.708 EMPIRE BUILDING Allan Crossfield turns an abandoned locomotive chassis into a Gold Medal Winning Bulldog locomotive.712 A UNIVERSAL HELIOCHRONOMETER Michael Lee makes a sun compass.717 ALTERNATIVE MOUNTINGS FOR MYFORD-DICKSON QUICK-CHANGE TOOLPOSTS Nigel Bennett improves his lathe.720 A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO BOILER MAKING Terrence Holland builds a Yarrow water tube boiler. 725 DIARY Forthcoming events.726 HEADLAMPS FOR THE PRINCESS OF WALES Tony Meek makes his own lights.