Exhibitions

Although I am editor of Model Engineers' Workshop, I have never attended the Model Engineer Exhibition before, largely as I live closer to other shows. nevertheless, I greatly enjoy each year's exhibition reports and have long been keen to come and seem it for myself – there can be little argument that the standard of…

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This nice small rotary table by J Rhea was on the PEEMS stand, It looks like one from the College Engineering castings? P Bramley exhibited a number of sets of tooling on the same club stand. Aside from PEEMS, workshop tooling was sadly under represented. Let's see some at Sandown this year! Mark Noel's hi-tech…

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Many readers will be familiar with the Duke of Edinburgh trophy, a hotly contested award competed for by previous Model Engineer Exhibition medal winners. This visit, in the year of the Coronation, was what inspired the Duke to set up the trophy.

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The London Model Engineering Exhibition  Alexandra Palace; 21 – 23 January 2011   The 2011 London Model Engineering Exhibition, a Meridienne Exhibitions production, was held once again at the popular Alexandra Palace. Many local and national clubs and societies display stands at the show and the British Model Flying Association, Imagineering Foundation and the Rocketry…

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The 2010 Model Engineer Exhibition  Top quality exhibits and a great show! Sandown Park; 10 – 12 December   The 2010 Model Engineer Exhibition was a joy to behold. In due course we shall publish a more in-depth report on all that there was to see. As a taster, meanwhile, here are a few photographs…

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This was the second occasion on which this event had been held at Ascot, also the second at this time of the year, after a number of years at Sandown Park when the show was set between Xmas and the New Year. The autumnal timing certainly conveys benefits in terms of weather and this year…

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