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I've had several Mamod stationaries in my grasp over my 3 years of collecting. I don't normally collect them, and they are sold to finance the purchase of flatbases and other rarer engines.
There are, however, some stationaries that I just will never sell. These are listed, along with the reasons as to why, below.
Stationaries
1954-57Mamod Minor 1 (MM1-boxed)
I bought this engine off ebay a bit back for around £35. It's in all original condition, just missing it's single wick burner.
This particular engine is boxed, in the muliticouloured box. This is a nice example, with a very nice decal.
The spoked flywheel was introduced in 1950, following the 1948-49 "disk crank" Minor 1.
These are great little engines! They aren't very powerful but they have a real charm of their own. When I first got mine, I couldn't believe how small it was! My good friend James Kite (MamodMan123) said that upon first receival, he looked around inside the box to see where the rest of it was!
1977-79 Mamod Minor 1 (MM1-solid fuel-boxed)
This is a rare little number! I actually bought this for my dad, for Father's Day. So in effect it isn't mine, but he told me to keep it with the other engines.
This is one of the last MM1's ever produced. It has many late features. These include an overflow plug and solid fuel burner. The solid fuel burner was first used on MM1s in 1976, but for export only. In 1977-early 78 they were fitted as standard on all MM1s. This engine, aswell as being boxed, has the original label that it came with, and still bears it's original laquer. Dad has steamed this once, and it needs running in. It won't be fired any more though!
1977 Mamod Minor 2 (MM2- Solid Fuel- My 1st engine)
It was a cold September day in 2005. After mucking out, and finishing off outside, we me and dad sat down to watch the TV. We goes onto the Documentries on Sky, and Fred Dibnah is on. I put it on (not knowing who he was or what a "Steam engine" was) and I suddenly became hooked. Dad said about him having a MM1 and a full workshop when he was my age, and how fun it was. So, off we go down to the local antique centre, and what should we find there? A near mint Mamod Minor 2 with solid fuel burner. I can date it exactly to 1977, because solid fuel burners were fitted to the MM2 for export only in 1976, and only fitted as standard in 1977. In 1978 the boiler sight glass was introduced. But then again, this engine has neither a sight glass or a water level plug!
Well, it had a price tag on it of £25. We got him down to £20, and I walked out of that shop the happiest lad on Earth! On the way home in the car, I unwrapped it, and I remember playing with the flywheel and asking "How fast does it go?", to which dad replied "Well, I don't know, but you can't see the spokes in the flywheel when it is moving!". We got it home, and because we didn't have any Solid Fuel, we used an old meths burner from a Tilly Lamp. The beast coughed and spluttered, and bubbled and hissed. I stood watching with amazement at how fast it went with the spin of a flywheel! That was it. I was firmly hooked.
1953-57 Mamod Minor 2 (MM2-Wick burner- boxed)
Now here's a rare engine! You don't see many of these, and this one is the best one anyone has ever seen.
It's boxed, too! The box is brown cardboard with a red and white label with the price "35 shillings" written in pencil.
This engine has probably been fired a maximum of 2 times in it's life. It really is in stunning condition. The decal on the forebox is perfect too. Nothing is wrong at all.
It has the "barrel" cylinder, turned from one solid lump of brass, not 2 parts soldered together. It has a 2 wick burner too, and a flat ended piston rod.
1965-70 Mamod/Meccano MEC1
This is the Mamod/Meccano MEC1 that was made FOR Meccano BY Mamod. It was menat for driving Meccano models off, and for building models around it that could be powered by steam, a car for example.
I got given this by dad's friend. It was in very bad shape when I got it, it had been left in the house he grew up in for years, and the hourse roof had actually collapsed. It was real rough, and in desperate need of a repaint. The yellow for the base is New Holland Harvest Gold. This is used for Combines, and because dad is service manager for one of the biggest New Holland dealers in Britain, it was quite logical!
It's a great little runner! It has a steam dome, for dryer steam, and a chrome cowl on top of the boiler.
1977 Mamod SE1a
Ever since I got hooked on steam with the MM2, I couldn't help but gaze into the glass cabinet. It was the same antiques centre, but a different shop. In that glass cabinet, there was a solid fired Mamod SE1a, with a complete workshop. I would have done anything for it.
Then, Christmas day 2005, I opened up one of the presents to find the SE1a! I could't believe it! I opened some more parcels, and there was a Mamod Lineshaft, Mamod SP range silver hammer, Mamod SP range press, rare Mamod "punch" press, and a Mamod polisher.
I hooked it up on a board with all the accessories, and Christmas day 2005 was really great. I remember going across to feed the sheep with dad, talking about it all the way there and all the way back. I fired it up and WOW! This was only my second engine, and it was a huge step up from the MM2! I run this engine quite often, and it is a great attraction at shows when the little SE1a is chugging away powering the whole workshop with steam billowing out the chimney.
Approx. 1965 Mamod SE3 (Boxed)
Some call it the cream of the crop. The biggest steam engine Mamod have ever made. The SE3 - twice as many cylinders, twice as much power, twice as much fun.
The SE3 is a real joy to steam. It features a regulator aswell, which allows you to either make the engine fly, or make it just tick over. There are basically 2 types of SE3. There was one like mine, the normal one, and there was one with a silver soldered boiler and no regulator - the "Griffin and George" model from 1969. This was made for use in schools, and only 2000 were ever produced.
I was lucky, I got my SE3 for £42 plus postage... boxed aswell! This might have been because when I bought it, it was in poor condition. No repainting has been done, it is all original, only a good thorough clean. I couldn't believe the size of this beast when I took it out of the box! It's a real monster!
