No - not that Tom Jones. This one was born Ralph Thomas Jones in Yorkshire, around the turn of the 20th century and married into the family. When he wasn't at the office, he used his carpentry skills to make things, like the model of his work bench and tools that he's rather shyly showing off for the local newspaper in this photo from 1954.
Hey presto! Here it is 56 years later. The male equivalent of a dolls house.
Not sure why he didn't finish this steel locomotive, which is sheer precision engineering.
I make a mess of whittling a stick.
4 comments:
yeah but you got green fingers
There's an awful lot of work in one of those engines, and even people who have all their time free can take several years to complete one. Plus, they cover a big range of metalwork skills.
Interesting design - it looks to be some sort of 4-4-0 or 4-4-2 with outside cylinders but inside Gooch motion.
The only Gooch motion I know of is a square drive off the back foot ; )
lmfao;
what about the gooch wibbly wobbly
trundle bowling?
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