Steam Engine & Plough Models

2” scale Fowler BB1 and plough made by Joe Challis and shown by his son Phil and grandson Leigh AGM 2018

Cultivating GDSF 2014

BB1 IDRIS at GDSF 2014

Ransomes Simms & Jeffries portable with Hayes windlass Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Cultivator at work GDSF 2015

Graham Hunt’s superb 4” scale model SC based on Fowler number 2623 “Papworth” built in 1875. Graham made all the patterns for castings.

4” Fowler SC by Graham Hunt Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

3 inch Fowler SC showing Church Valve Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Mole drainer courtesy of Robert Jameson Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Hayes roundabout tackle by Reuben Smith Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Double frame mole drainer 1921 [Les Tilbury & Roger Thurston] Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

4 inch Fowler BB1 by Ian Mitchell Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Disc harrows by Dewi Williams Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

2 inch SC of 1879 by Peter Parrish Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Mole drainer courtesy of Robert Jameson Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

“Diana” a half size Fowler PE look-alike. Built by Harold Tame and entered by Rod Sothern Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

2 inch Fowler SC showing Church Valve Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Single frame, self-lifting mole drainer with turntable steering of 1921 [Roger Thurston] Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Single frame mole drainer of 1884 [Les Tilbury & Roger Thurston] Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Hayes Windlass by Reuben Smith Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Mole drainers by Roger Thurston & Les Tilbury Wilton Model Engineers Exhibition 2015

Member Jan Huijgen in Holland sent these photographs of his splendid working model (1.5” scale) BB1 class ploughing engine.

[Fowler BB1 class engines 15146/15147 – AL 8508 & AL 8507 – were new to Beeby Brothers, Rempstone, Notts., in 1918 and worked together as Set 11]

SPC member Steve Elliott’s ¼ scale Z7

Kitson Hewitson PE

4 wheel cultivator

Heads patent anchor carriage

Single Engine System – Kitson & Hewitson engine and tackle are the work of member Harry Williams.

At the 2011 Dorset Steam Fair, David Steel and wife Lynn provided two examples of a ‘Markie’ produced PE model based on an early Burrell – one completed and another in unfinished state – together with plough and water cart (actually the gas fuel for the engine.)

These are available at £2800 for the engine and £750 for the plough