Henry Greenly (1876–1947)
Auteur van Model Steam Locomotives
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Fotografie: Henry Greenly, 1876--1947
Werken van Henry Greenly
Model Electric Locomotives and Railways: Their Details and Practical Construction (1922) 5 exemplaren
The Ravenglass & Eskdale narrow gauge (15") Railway : the smallest railway in the world, an illustrated history and… 3 exemplaren
Model steam engines: How to understand them and how to run them (The "Model engineer" series) 2 exemplaren
Model Electric Locomotives and Railways, etc 1 exemplaar
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1876
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1947
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Beroepen
- Model engineer
- Organisaties
- Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
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Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 11
- Leden
- 53
- Populariteit
- #303,173
- Waardering
- 4.7
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
This is a very practical, hands-on introduction to the subject, illustrated with a huge number of sketches and plans - if I'd been a boy in the 1920s and got a copy of this in my Christmas stocking, I'd have headed straight out to the workshop to start building something. For the modern reader, it's more of an historical curiosity: it gives an idea of what it must have been like in those days when there were very few commercial products available for modellers, and you had to build practically everything from scratch if you wanted to progress beyond the circle of tinplate track on the living-room carpet. One chapter just deals with materials that you could use for rails and track fixings, another has detailed instructions for building points and crossings in various scales.… (meer)