Hi Rich,

Presumably that will be the idea as reprints of the original articles
are available from the Association.

There is a page on the Association website about the Ayesha project
but it seems to have become 'orphaned', at least I can't find a link
to it from any other page. The address is

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~n25ga/ayeshaproj.htm

Apparently the original Ayesha built by LBSC is different to the
Ayesha described in the ME articles, for example the original only had
frames 1/16" thick.Presumably LBSC 'beefed' up the design for the ME
version.

The frames etc. for the new Ayesha will be water jet cut, not laser as
I said before. There were a few sets for sale at the Rugby 'do' in May
so it shouldn't be long before everything is available. I shall
certainly be building one I think. I took a few photos of the
prototype running at Rugby and the second chassis(in the Rugby folder
in the photo section).

John


--- In halfinchlivesteamforum@..., "R.L. Roebuck"
<rlr20@h...> wrote:
> I thought that the implication was that you could get hold of the
origianl
> construction series from model engineer (around the 1930's) and that
the
> point with the current work was to produce a set of plans that would
give
> a loco more like the original Ayesha, but with subtle updates (as
the
> 1930's construction series didn't produce quite as nice a looking
loco).
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Rich.
>