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Here's a little one that i picked up a couple of years ago on eBay. Goodness know if she'd be sea worthy as she's only 30cms long but i have no intentions to put her in the water! There's a Krick Patricia for the ponds... A query, Does this look like it was a production model to any of you?

Thankyou to John Reid for the photo advice! Please let me know if the photos are showing. Ruairidh.[/img]

johnreid · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject:

The photos are showing just great, good job.
Wow another nice one. You have a very nice collection.
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Les · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

Looks like a Mamod boiler to me.

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Les · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

Very nice photo's and a nice looking boat.
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James · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

The boiler is definately Mamod, and the cylinder looks like Mamod too! Maybe a Mamod engine frame off an engine like an SP2 (it's in SP blue) and boiler off something like a 1978 SE1a/2a
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fcrammond · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

The hull looks awfully like an early Sutcliffe warship. Has some swine butchered a classic Pop-Pop or was it merely one of those clockwork things? It is hard to believe that someone beat a shape like that out by hand from tinplate.

Lewis · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject:

it looks like a mm1 boiler with a sp2 engine frame and a sp1 burner

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CCairns · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject:

As others have posted it is a Mamod boiler, burner and piston. As Mamod only produced 2 boats, and only 1 was steam, then it is another company's boat with the Mamod bits inside.

I've seen a similar boat hull on ebay in the past but cannot put a name to it.

All the same it is a nice steam boat. Is the rudder fixed?

H2o vapour · Junior Member Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 282

Hello,

As has been said earlier, the hull I am almost certain is a Sutcliffe Hull.

The most obvious answer to this is yes it's a butchered job on an old Sutlciffe, however, there were many old hulls floating about after Sutcliffe shut when everything was sold off. Also, Sutcliffe made re- pro / Retro copies of old hulls using the original 1920's Pressing tools in the last 10 years. I have 3 of their warships, all copies of originals made in the 1980's - which are great.

This company in the last years sold at toy fairs and sold allot of old stock, miss shapes, etc. The prop shaft and prop look like a standard unit from any R/C model shop. All in all, I think this is a well thought out tidy bit of kit.

Room in my attic for it

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Wallace · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:07 am Post subject:

Very nice

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Cranko · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:49 am Post subject:

Interesting piece you have there

Graham-Jilly · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:56 am Post subject:

I like that

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tmuir · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject:

I've look at your pictures about 10 times now and I have to say I really like that boat and I think that man really finishes it off for me.

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bessytractor · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:

I bet it works well on water.

Stitch · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:16 am Post subject:

I like that. There is a real quaintness about that boat