Somewhat unexpectedly my copy of Cherry’s Model Engines turned up. I hadn’t been expecting it – the package was coming via Royal Air Mail and based on past experience I figured I had at least another couple of weeks to stew. Wait or no wait, I’m glad to have it.
To many North American model railroaders the name Cherry Hill is likely unfamiliar. Suffice to say that she is one of the UK’s better model makers. Working from the solid and keeping all labour in house (as any proper worker would) she has been breathing life into the old, the experimental and the mechanically impossible for the past sixty years and taking her share of accolades along the way. 
While not a how-to book it is none the less a very encouraging look into the stories behind each of Mrs. Hill’s models.
On her self penned four wheel drive Gilletts & Allat;
“Cherry wanted to design and patent a traction engine as it might have been in 1862. The idea was to incorporate features not taken up by other designers at the time. That is how Patent No. 2260 ( a number from the time but not allocated then) came about.”
nuff said…
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