Hi all,
Here are a few items on the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway, designed by Rowland Emett, and built for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
It was a mad set-up, based on cartoons that had appeared in the magazine Punch. There were three different locomotives. One actually looked like a railway engine, another like a paddle steamer, and the last like a steampunk airship.
Built to a gauge of 15 inches, and towing passenger carriages giving rides to the public.
Emett later provided the inventions of Caractacus Potts in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Here are a few items on the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway, designed by Rowland Emett, and built for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
It was a mad set-up, based on cartoons that had appeared in the magazine Punch. There were three different locomotives. One actually looked like a railway engine, another like a paddle steamer, and the last like a steampunk airship.
Built to a gauge of 15 inches, and towing passenger carriages giving rides to the public.
Emett later provided the inventions of Caractacus Potts in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct3ly_qyG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxN_2TkzAyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6UI8fSvAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOeP42Z2nA
Paul Adams from New Zealand
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Terranova47 from the US adds: another great site https://www.smallbrookstudio.uk/
I remember seeing the steam engine version of the train on display in the toy department at Selfridges in London, back in the 1960s...
ReplyDeleteSelfridges sounds amazing back then Looey. I don't think we had one in Preston. Maybe too small and not even a city back then!
DeleteI don't think anyone has a Selfridges Woodsy, apart from London.
ReplyDeleteI think it's like Harrods, a one off.
Really. I must be thinking of Miss Selfridge Mish. Preston had a British Home Stores and a shop called Owen and Owen. I wonder what the singles cheapest item is you can buy in Harrods?
DeleteAs for Rowland Emett, I remember a wacky flying machine/fountain of his on display in a Nottingham shopping centre, when I was a student there in the 80s.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's a large mosaic map of Hertfordshire, where I now live, by him, on the side of a car park in Hemel Hempstead.
Small world Mish. And to think I've never heard of him. Where was I? The whole menagerie of his machines reminds me of the 70's fashion for Victoriana on things like Quality Street tins and the box for this Magnificent Race game, which I once had. Is that Emett influenced? https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vintage-playtime.com%2Fvintage_board_games%2Fprod_3415232-The-Magnificent-Race-Board-Game.html&psig=AOvVaw0__3X5diwk6LUuqgHbaTAl&ust=1618233750528000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNizktKk9u8CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAG
DeleteThere was a section of an episode of the BBC show 'The Repair Shop' that dealt with the restoration of one of these trains.
ReplyDeleteThat is a really popular show now isn't it.
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