Here are a few facts and figures about Playcraft Railways locomotives
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None of the Playcraft (or Jouef) items had serial numbers on them making identification difficult at times. |
Class 29 locomotive
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The class 29 loco started life with the large M40 can motor mounted centrally in the body with eight wheel drive through a system of spur gears. The picture shows this arrangement. |
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This picture shows the later chassis after it was re-engineered with the M20 motor similar to a Tri-ang X04 type and mounted on one bogie, giving four wheel drive. This meant fitting completely different bogies too. |
Locomotives general
One of the instructions noted in the early catalogues was 'Do not use oil on these locos'
Bogies
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The Class 29 locomotive started off with one type of bogie when it was powered by the body-mounted can motor but ended up with a different type when powered by the small bogie-mounted motor. These are shown below, neither owed much to the Class 29 prototype design. |
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The original short-wheelbase bogie on the 8-wheel drive locomotive |
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The later long-wheelbase bogie on the 4-wheel drive locomotive |
Class 29 bodies
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The original body for this locomotive was fixed to the chassis by two self-tapping screws positioned unusually in the centre of the connecting doors on front of each cab. The chassis had two raised bosses at each end into which these screwed. |
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The later bodies had two projections on each side of the chassis, which clipped into recesses on the body sides but the body still retained blind holes (recesses) in the connecting doors, where the original screws were fitted. |
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Later bodies also had a more pronounced raised edging to the doors and windows, a backing plate behind the loco number and the double arrow BR symbol. |
0-4-0 Tank Engine
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