Martel Maides Auctions
Lot 457
Bassett-Lowke - a fine 1:16 scale electrified display model of the Rhodesian Railways 4-6-4 + 4-6-4 Beyer-Garratt locomotive No.272, built circa 1939, complete with finely machined motion and running gear, full scale cab and back head fittings, fine pipework and external boiler fittings, lamps, running board mounted jacks, buck-eye couplings etc., finished in RR black livery, on show track display base.* Bassett-Lowke was commissioned by British locomotive builder Beyer-Peacock to make a 1:16 scale display model of No.272 for the directors of Rhodesian Railways in 1939. The model was completed but not shipped due to the outbreak of war. It was subsequently sent to Beyer-Peacock's valve making subsidiary, Richard Garrett at Leiston, Suffolk, where it was displayed until 1978. ** Sold at Christies South Kensington, 'Models Sale', 14th October 1988, Lot 67 to Ron Hickman OBE, designer of the Black & Decker Workmate and the Lotus Elan and Elan 2+2. Copy correspondence included between Mr. Hickman and The Long Shop Museum, Leiston, Suffolk and a copy invoice for restoration work by Bassett-Lowke, dated 1995. *** See 'The Bassett-Lowke Story, Raymond Fuller, p.108.
