Ferdinand Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 It is wonderful that people do this. An entire site about bricks and brickworks from my area. https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.co.uk/ And a wonderful "walking" steam engine from a different site, made by the Butterley company. It ran at 3mph up a 1/50 gradient. Designed by someone familiar with a horse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Horse_locomotive Commendable nerdery. Found due to following a reference to the billionaire with a global conglomerate who lives in Repton. Not, unfortunately, @PeterW Ferdinand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Saw some Butterley ones in the pile at the weekend marked "Butterley Ollerton" - I should take a photo and send it to him ..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 2 minutes ago, PeterW said: Saw some Butterley ones in the pile at the weekend marked "Butterley Ollerton" - I should take a photo and send it to him ..! He has lots of varieties of those already :-). I was trying to match some late 1970s buff bricks, and some Butterleys match, but the Butterley Brick company is now down South somewher - Bedford I think. So none to pick up locally. The Repton conglomerate is Langley's, which came out of a small business which used to supply the mining industry. Now 4000 people internationally and £800m+ turnover. F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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