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Christiansen & Miller's two-volume history of the Cambrian contains a discussion of the proposed 2-6-0 tender engine sketched out after the Great War but not pursued after the Grouping; and further details are in the RCTS history of Great Western locomotives, including a very small reproduction of what looks to be an official Oswestry outline drawing. I have searched the HMRS drawings catalogue, but nothing is listed there, so I'm curious to know whether other members have any knowledge of the whereabouts of such a drawing. Christiansen & Miller's book has an outline sketch of the engine and tender to something like 3mm scale, but I'm not clear whether or not this is a copy of the Oswestry drawing or from some other source.

As ever, any enlightenment on these matters would be much appreciated.

Neil Burgess

My guess would be that the drawings in question were done by Bob Miller himself, based on the information he had to hand and possibly one or more official drawings, as they have his initials against them. Unfortunately, a quick look at the NRM (Oxford Publishing Company) list of microfilmed drawings doesn't find anything there either.

According to Christiansen & Miller, a tender was received from Beyer Peacock. It looks like the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester hold the majority of the company's surviving records, including around 4000 drawings, although they may not be catalogued in detail. Whether there might be anything therein in terms of tender documents that would possibly include drawings of any sort is hard to judge, but might be another possible source.

http://archives.sciencemuseumgroup.ac.u ... /110007849

Richard