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A Tender behind – and then there were three!!
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Following on from the delivery of the cast Hornblocks by William Cook’s to our engineering base at CTL Seal as previously reported for April, the Trust is pleased to report the next stage of the Rolling Chassis has commenced. With the easing of the Coronavirus lockdown rules, the patterns for the Cannon Axle boxes and the Coupled Axle boxes, along with the patterns for the 6’8” driving wheels, have been collected from their various storage areas in Darlington and delivered to the William Cook premises in Sheffield for casting.
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While we wait for the hornblocks to be shipped to our engineering base at CTL Seal, design work has been moving on apace. Here are a series of updated CAD drawings (all courtesy of Alan Parkin), showing the most recently completed component, the middle cylinder and its location within the frames.
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The first Rolling Chassis components
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THE BIG MOVE COMPLETE - The Chassis moves from Llangollen to Sheffield
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THE BIG MOVE - Tenders Move complete - 30th September 2020
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THE BIG MOVE – relocating 61673 ‘Spirit of Sandringham’ - 27th August 2020
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Patterns for each of the three pairs of hornblocks for the leading, intermediate and trailing positions have been ordered with William Cook Cast Products. Steel castings will be produced from these patterns in due course. This order is the first of many to turn our static chassis into a 'rolling' one.
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The Time Has Come - Spirit of Sandringham contemplates the next move...