Henry Greenly (1876–1947)
Author of Model Steam Locomotives
About the Author
Image credit: Henry Greenly, 1876--1947
Works by Henry Greenly
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1876
- Date of death
- 1947
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Occupations
- Model engineer
- Organizations
- Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
Members
Reviews
Statistics
- Works
- 13
- Members
- 57
- Popularity
- #287,973
- Rating
- 4.7
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
This is a very practical, hands-on introduction to the subject, illustrated with a huge number of sketches and plans - if I'd been a boy in the 1920s and got a copy of this in my Christmas stocking, I'd have headed straight out to the workshop to start building something. For the modern reader, it's more of an historical curiosity: it gives an idea of what it must have been like in those days when there were very few commercial products available for modellers, and you had to build practically everything from scratch if you wanted to progress beyond the circle of tinplate track on the living-room carpet. One chapter just deals with materials that you could use for rails and track fixings, another has detailed instructions for building points and crossings in various scales.… (more)