Singapore 0-4-0T industrial Hawthorn Leslie.

Singapore is a generally true to scale model designed by Martin Evans of an 0-4-0 saddle tank designed by Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Martin Evans' objective was to design "a small compact 7 1/4" gauge locomotive that could be built in the average model engineer's 'shop', and [is] small enough and light enough to be handled by one person".

The prototype locomotive was built in Hawthorn Leslie's Forth Bank Works in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1936 as works number 3865. It is one of the firm's standard design saddle-tanks with 12" x 18" cylinders. The loco' was supplied to HM Dockyards seeing service in Singapore and Chatham before being sold into preservation.

The model is to scale except that the grate has been increased in size to improve steaming and this necessitated the extension of the frames behind the driving wheels by 3/4". In addition the valve-gear travel of the model was increased over the scale travel, although the general layout of components has been retained.

Martin Evans wrote a construction series with full drawings for Model Engineer (UK) magazine commencing in Volume 165, issue 3882, 5-18 October 1990 and ending in Volume 166, issue 3894, 5-18 April 1991.

The overall length of the model is 33".

Drawings and castings are available from GS model services.

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