Not only would this have been prototypical surely it would have been easier as you wouldn’t have needed 4 eccentrics. We shall never know! Here is a short video of the ‘BAT’ in action on the workshop bench, March 2010:

BAT is the name LBSC gave to the meths fired 'O' gauge schools class locomotive he designed for use indoors during the blackouts! Crazy or what, just imagine the health and safety brigade with that!

2009年7月8日 · Anybody know where I can find a copy of LBSC's O scale live steam locomotive called the BAT? I know that I can get a photo copy of the plans from TEE Publishing, but I'd really like to find a source that's on the Colony side of the pond.

The model is Methylated Spirit fired with electronic low water alarm. LBSC designed it to be coal fired too, but the grate is tiny & I suspect you would need coal dust!

If spirit-fired, LBSC thought it would be the ideal thing for running round a scenic track indoors during the blackouts, hence "Bat" (yes, I think it's a barmy idea too). Set of castings, completed frames and flanged boiler kit, ordered from Kennions in 1962.

The first part of this vid is a standard BAT with all the plumbing simplified as far as I can figure it out.

2012年9月12日 · "Bat" is hauling 7 coaches around a magnificent layout. Then a second Bat was double-headed (but it was not under steam). In memory of Bat's designer, LBSC....more

LBSC’s ‘O’ gauge Bat 029 Published July 19, 2011 at 2792 × 1525 in LBSC’s ‘Bat’ BoilerBoiler

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2003年3月14日 · Our Britannia boasts a home made LBSC designed injector--- it is still working after 16 yrs in our hands--- yet some say they cannot be made to work. Britannia and Maisie stand out as being perhaps his very best work, Maisie, a 1930s effort was updated with a boiler with more superheater flues.