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Hi,

The next job was to make a mount for the engine.  It is the first totally new part to be made for the model; previously it has been just refurbishing existing parts. When scratch building a copy of a Bowman Swallow knowing what a part looked like was relatively easy as they only supplied ready to run and other than minor modifications made by Bowman they all started off the same. Also there are relatively plenty of the models still around to copy. 
The Stuart Turner Henley is totally different, it was available ready to run, but each individual component was available separately; the hull painted or not, the boiler and boiler fittings, the propeller shaft and propeller, rudder shaft and rudder and the engine was available ready to run or as a casting kit. So this begs the question when is a Henley a Henley?  The factory made one, yes; but if home built; do all Stuart components need to be used? Another problem is that there doesn’t seem to be many Henley’s about to look at; at least I haven’t found one yet.
Back to the build, photographs show that usually the engine propeller shaft coupling is a coiled spring and the engine sits on what looks like an aluminium plate held by screws to the hulls longitudinal battens. Also photographs and drawing show that the engine is at an angle so that it is in line with the propeller shaft; though some photographs show quite a curve in the coil spring taking out the misalignment.
Hopefully the photographs will show how the first attempt at mounting the engine was archived. It might not be how Stuart Turner envisaged it; but it will work.  If further information comes to light the engine mount might get changed.

Take care Tony.

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