Reply To: Everlasting Blow Down Valve ?

[Bob YouldonParticipant @bobyouldon45599]

Good afternoon Stewart,

I didn't think I was going mad, in the 1954 edition of "The Live Steam Book" pages 205 – 209 contain drawings and a description of the construction of an "Everlasting" blowdown valve; whilst it is for a 3/4" scale locomotive it could easily be enlarged to suit a 5" gauge locomotive.

A very good description and drawings for a similar valve for a 11/2" scale locomotive appear at http://livesteamt3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/everlasting-blowdown-valve.html

Incidentally, I have an early copy of Shops, Shed and Road in which someone has indicated it was published in 1929 and it would appear to have been J N Maskelyne's own copy as he has signed the fly leaf; on the first page there is a note and poem by LBSC, it's signed Curly, Purly Oaks locomotive works, August 1949, also there's a rubbing of his LBSCR cap badge and a rubbing of the numberplate of his little 31/2" gauge single Grosvenor. For the record the "Everlasting" blowdown valve doesn't appear in that edition.

Regards,

Bob Youldon