P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

More or less

Tom

 

As I read it, they have actually received £2M cash/money to date with nearly another £million pledged.

One could argue that they have raised nearly £3M in four years and therefore only need to secure another £2M or so..

At the same rate of fundraising (3/4 £M per yr) there's just over two and a half years fundraising left to do.

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All that additional cash has to come from those of us who have already contributed, and who may or may not be inclined to contribute further, and/or from individuals or organisations that have so far not been inclined to contribute at all. I'm sure the Trust will succeed in winkling the money out of existing and new contributors, but they have their work cut out to do it.

 

860 people are signed up to donate £10/month. That struck me as a low number. I feel there are many more out there who could be persuaded to sign up to that particular commitment.

 

That's still north of 100,000 a year. Not to be sniffed at.

 

A really impressive achievement of the P2 Steam!
I find it a bit odd that they not have set up any possibillity to donate money or sign up as members online. Maybe that could attract even more support..?

Knut

 

Hi Knut,

I don't know how general it is, but on the page describing the motion repair there is a PayPal 'donate' button?

 

Hi!

Thanks for your info. I know about that button from before ,but it is just for the support of Tornado you see

Knut

 

Even more shiny ,brand new items for the P2 locomotive being produced https://www.p2steam.com/2018/04/25/quick-engineering-update/

And the "Mikado Club" are almost completed! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155721845818871&set=gm.2024739687742984&type=3&ifg=1

Knut

 

As a bit of change, I came across the following on "Steam index", from the Locomotive Magazine, 1935:

"Boy Scouts were asked to suggest names for the new 2-8-2 engines which the L.N.E.R. intend building for their Scottish lines. Over two thousand entries were received and although the railway company does not bind itself to use the names submitted, there is a probability some may be finally chosen for the new engines. The prize-winners are t0 be given a free trip to the Doncaster Works, as well as a guinea pocket money. They are as follows: H. R. Watson, who suggested the name Earl Marischal which has been chosen for engine No. 2002; J. N. Wheatley, Gordon of Fochabers ; J, M. Laing, Maid of Glamis; R. Edminson, Mons Meg ; and D. E. Townley, Thane of Fife."
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http://www.steamindex.com/locomag/lcwr41.htm - Issue Number 509 (15 January 1935) of Locomotive Magazine and Railway Carriage and Wagon Review

Tom

 

A prize of one guinea, worth a little over £70 today, at first thought not a bad reward for the suggestion of a possible name, not ignoring the works visit here. But would the same age group be contented today with such a reward? I doubt it, folk are too conditioned to expect a chance of a reward of thousands, if not millions, for the loss of a few pounds which in themselves are seen to have little value.

 

Anyone got any idea as to the diameter of the Alternator pulley being machined in the linked photo?

 

I would think it would be similar to the pulley fitted to the axle of a b4/b5 bogie.

Sawdust.

 

Which is?

 

yay big.

 

Not quite correct, it's a minimum of £10 a month some, including me pay more than that but we don't know how many.

 

You have overlooked the other means of funding, corporate begging otherwise known as sponsorship and the Trust seem to be particularly good at that.

 

Imagine the mileage we could have got with the slogan “Gordon’s alive!”

 

What would we get with a similar competition today? LocomotiveMclocoface?

 

A few Modern day Scots Terrors; Tennants Super, Jimmy Krankie, Rab. C. Nesbitt, Buckfast Bobby McBride, Nicola F******n Sturgeon...

I would have suggested Angus Og back then.