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SlideValve
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What was your first engine, what was the engine that started the collection  ? Mine was a Wilesco D6, and i still love it
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Wallace
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Bugsy
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Wilesco D6, my neighbour was about to take it to the tip. 
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TE1DRIVER
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TE1/A i love it dearly cracking engine
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Roly Williams
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:20 am Post subject: Re: What was your first engine? |
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| SlideValve wrote: | What was your first engine, what was the engine that started the collection ? Mine was a Wilesco D6, and i still love it
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That's two questions for me. My first engine was a SEL Major, but that was 50 years ago and is long gone. The first in my current collection was a Mamod SL6 Jubilee edition.
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gd9704
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Jensen 65.....had it for all of 2 weeks now!  |
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johnreid
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A new Wilesco D10, I am so glad I hot a Jensen 25 weeks later as I would have given up on the hobby, the D10 was JUNK
I have owned a few decent Wilescos since, not all are Junk
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First one I played with was my Dad's Weeden 14.
First steam engine that was mine was a Christmas gift around 1960. It was a black firebox Jensen 55. I still have it and I brought it back to life a few years ago.
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Minor1PJG
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No surprises - A Mamod Minor 1.
Aah, a lovely little engine, I remember seeing it in the toy shop window in 1977. Insufficient funds in my pocket, a sigh as I walked away to start saving up the money. I didn't manage to save up for it but Father Christmas had enough and the rest as they say is history!!
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Les
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A Cheddar Pipit Steam Plant.
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Mamod minor 2 when I was around 10 years old, some 56 years ago, it was in my parents basement for years then it disappeared. I bought another one, newer model, off eBay a few years ago and the rest is history.
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| A Mamod Goliath piston valve traction engine. One seems to become two ...................and so the collection grows. |
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