And other Hand Powered Rail Vehicles Railway Trike (AUS) Railway Kalamazoo (AUS) Pump Car (US,GB) Velorail (FR,GB) Hajtany (HU)

Railbike (US,GB) Dresinsykling (NO) Handcar (US) Drezina [SI] Handhebeldraisine (DE)

Drezina (RU) Resiina (FI) Drezyny (PL) Skinne cykel (DK) Draisines (BE) Bicilinha (BR) Dresin

(NO) Biciclette Ferroviarie (IT) Spoorvegfiets (BE) Dressin (SE,NO) Dresina (SP)

Schienenvelo (CH) Dreziny (CZ) Railway Jigger (NZ) Cyclo Draisine (FR) Spoorfiets (NL)

Cykeldressin (SE) Ferroviarie Quadriciclo (IT) Google the black names, see what you get.

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National Velocipede Rally on the Churnet Valley Railway, Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th September 2016 North Yorkshire Moors

Railway, Monday 31st October, Tuesday 1st November. 2 foot gauge: Statfold Barn Railway, dates for 2016 4th June, 10th September.

www.statfoldbarnrailway.co.uk. Click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlkIVQvxFcW We are at 8.05 minutes.

Starter Museum for Hand Power We may think Hand Power on Rails is fascinating but it will not support a standalone Museum, however clever we are at it.

We have to be an “add-on” to an existing site, that might sound defeatist but it is realistic, we can still be very good, we can be

imaginative, creative, interesting and above all fun.

Basic Mark 1, Passive, Unstaffed, Low energy. c£3,000 with corrugated steel extra roof

continuing out to form a canopy.

The container could have

cutouts spelling the word

VELOCIPEDE which

not only brands the

structure but creates

viewing polycarbonate

windows.

Container 40’ x 8’ x 9’ 6” high,

Floor Area 288 sq ft,

Capacity 2448 cu ft,

Weight 3.3 ton.

Sitting on old concrete

sleepers

Up to 14 machines as exhibits, some hanging. 12v Rechargeable Battery powered LED lights, Movement detector to turn lights on, rolling

roads and motor drives at the push of a button by viewers. Ventilation Fan on automatic.

Needs a volunteer to keep batteries charged up and rotated (and rolling roads serviced).

Help needed with Poly carbonate “glass” windows slid behind vertical (square ERW) tubes

welded in to reinforce the roof and make up for the letter cut outs. Photo voltaic roof panels, as they get cheaper.

Can be extended to two containers in line with 20 to 30 exhibits. 3x1 tanalised wood track on floor?

Lastly we declare ourselves to be the “National Hand Power Collection” (competition is unlikely!)

1. Row Boat

2. Walking Car

3. No. 3 Sheffield Telegraph Car

4. Draisine

5. Wickham Pump Car

6. Sheffield Pump Car

7. Howard Smith’s Convertible

8. Kevin Gould’s Norwegian

9. Morticia plus coffin

10. Buda 2 seater.

Ask for bequests or loans on the clear agreement the

machines and containers will be returned to named heirs

and their successors if the museum shuts down.

It prevents any future “Charitable Trustees” being

neither trustworthy or charitable. Ask me about it. Ed.

If Pigs Fly wildly optimistic model Mark 2

c£30,000 with coated corrugated steel, insulated industrial roof.

Two containers (on old concrete sleepers) with a steel frame roof supported off the containers. Assume extending when cash allows.

“Economy” Glass Wall and outward opening doors. The more light you let in for free, the less you have to pay for.

Ballast as ground gutter Stone wall on footings, build up to completely surround but not touch the containers, as stone becomes available

Gentle slopes not steps.

in stainless letters, standing off, on Bothy blank stone wall

Far glass wall (in movable steel frame, to move when doubling the length). Glass model display cases Gold. Real lamp red

Mark 2, being bigger, needs at least 1 “outgoing enthusiastic” volunteer

on gala days and big weekends (with recorded CCTV “Slippers and

trippers” * deterrent? *code for pavement injury fraudsters).

Tracks, not full of stock, allow room to demonstrate.

Floor, earth to start. A “wackered” (compacted) earth floor is better

than an uneven cheap one. Eventual Target aim for ultra-smooth

levelling compound over concrete (damp proof membrane and insulation

blocks), with inset tracks and check rails (rubber safety fill in walkable

areas).

Containers on old concrete sleepers. Tracks off container tops &

Very slow motor drives to turn mechanism on Rolling Road devices.

Child height start button Dioramas inside cut away containers.

Rolling roads on the Ground (conventional flanges)

Conventional Flange Just one needed for Velocipedes.

Need to be joined by a welded strap for 4 wheel machines.

Rolling Road for Disc Wheels

Actual Wheel Relationship to rail

Bothy (a wild indulgence if you have space for a warm

story telling corner)

You only need 2 stone walls and a chimney, with a coal stove inside (and

a fire guard), an iron kettle on a chain, white enamel mugs and a big

brown teapot, with a flagstone floor. Wood benches with backs. (Midland

Railway Signal Box ones are ideal) & a cat/dog basket.

Externally this should look like you have an old mine or railway building

and built the museum around it. Use local stone and lime mortar. Then

collect moss and lichens from local old buildings, mix in a bucket with

pints of live yoghurt and the magic ingredient a nice fresh lump of horse

poo, plus warm water. Mix and well with a plaster mixer in an electric

drill. Then rub into the new stonework and wait, months sometimes!

From the “Mad Restorer’s Cookbook”. Plant ferns at base.

Moss (plaster) mixer “Magic Goop” Work well in.

Laser cut Stainless Steel Signage on outside of Bothy stone wall,

(remember, get members to bring a stone each time they

come), (it worked for Peter the Great building the

foundations of St. Petersburg).

Essential

You also have to bring an elderly Bothy cat/dog on open days,

asleep next to the fire. Encourage stroking, if the beast has any

personality at all it will get fan mail. (write a story book for children

about the creature, to colour in at home, two A3 sheets folded, sewn and

slit). Give the cat/dog a page on the website and set up pages on social

media. (A volunteer photographer who can do cute is important).

Museums in the past have had to resort to Taxidermy to

keep pets at work. The 19th Century British Railway orphanages had

docile long suffering dogs on the platforms at the Major London Stations

with a collecting box on their back. At least 2 were stuffed and sent back

to their old job in covered parts of the stations.

All the several doors open outwards

Building could be basic corrugated at the other end with hopes for

imminent further expansion.

(If official “powers that be” get difficult about opening add “Store”

after the name and have “special” open days on high days and

holidays like the Science Museum at Wroughton or the City Museum in

Birmingham. You still need the push doors and emergency lighting).

Elderly delicate Exhibits go up in the air.

Or on rails off the containers to show the mechanism from underneath.

The Rebuilds are for children of all ages to jump on!

Hanging Wuppertal overhead track bike on a steel beam.

You can build a working copy of anything!

WW1 Hanging Trench Monorail for casualties (with chatty bandaged

body, under khaki blanket on suspended stretcher, clutching helmet).

“ESCAPE” The WW2 Escape Tunnel, is a hand powered railway relatively cheap and simple to construct and ideal for the adventurous to

drag themselves through.

About 2’ square, Tea Chest Size. Difficult for Americans, their supply was

throw in the harbour at Boston.

Tiny simulated candles in tin can reflectors, Entry with hinged pot belly

stove, to expose the tunnel. Real grass and plants around the exit

(hinged) on a tray with castors to take outside for real light and rain (and

exchange for the recovered spare).

from the Internet

Exit Bellows Air Pump

Lift off lid for the claustrophobic, who have been blackmailed into trying

it, to “escape” harassment by siblings.

from the Internet

Escape Tunnel, wood track and car with cord to pull it back.

Sacks of Soil to put down your trousers and “lose” outside.

Tom, Dick or Harry nameplate hanging on string.

Wooden horse alternative too? Build one with an open end for child explorers https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ww2+escape+tunnels&biw=1920&bih=888&tbm=isch

&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9u6qtxM3NAhWMC8AKHfHXDGgQsAQILQ

Double Glazed glass walls are expensive; you need to cultivate

friends in low places. Members can help with second hand double glazed

units, particularly patio doors. OR Local building and glazing companies

quite often take out usable double glazed units, ask for them, and offer

to put “sponsored by” on the website, letter heads and flyers.

NEEDS BRILLIANT WOODWORKER as a volunteer to build a wood

bespoke enormous frame (inside a welded steel channel) under deep

eaves (to keep dry) with lots of clever fitting around the “multifarious”

glass units you are given with infill panels to display artefacts and models

in sealed cases, on the inside of the frame, low down for the young.

The bright, if not illuminating, idea.

Self-adhesive computer cut plastic “etched glass” to a railway theme on

the cleaned and de-greased old glass sealed units. Click on

http://www.windowfilm.co.uk/etched-window-film?gclid=CImX2OPR-

M0CFeop0wodpA0CmQ

The Beautifully done Red Lion window is at Crich, the National Tramway

Museum. The plastic etched glass sheet is attached inside their NEW

double glazed units.

(All from scans or new artwork, (the originals cost a fortune), but this will

turn impecunious salvage into a glorious exhibit that lets in light. Send in

photos of favourite “Railway Inn” pub windows or any good railway

examples you see, especially Great Central Railway toilet windows, they

can be pulled and squeezed in the computer, to fit the glass you have).

All the windows don’t have to be “etched”, only those

above the child’s sticky hand line.

Bothy Range, but working.

If Regiments of

Pigs Fly unreal optimism model

Mark 3 (double length)

Much More Attractive, needs at least 2 animal expert volunteers on high

days and holidays, with adorable quadrupeds and horse boxes & one

volunteer for the hand power machines

On outside of Bothy stone wall, (get members to bring a stone each time they

come). Stylish Laser Cut Stainless Steel Signage

“Horse & Hand” And on the doors

“The only museum where you HAVE to

touch the exhibits”

Gold Dust is needed, a couple of expert volunteers who have and

adore donkeys and fell ponies and want to share them with a wider

audience.

Cairo had donkey trams in the 19th Century, they were tiny, I will search

for details, am sure they were narrow gauge and just the right size for

children’s rides.

A donkey/mule tram by W. G. Bagnall of Stafford in 1910. Horse Tram at Crich

Sexism and determinism to the fore You then have the ideal

mums and children attraction.

“Dark Satanic Mills” diorama - Poorly lit Mine and a (fell) pony hauling a

tub in a (forced perspective) stage set mine and stable. With a fake

shaft upwards, (a black cone with a dim dot of light). Underground stable

Animal Training

Needs Love & Patience

The people who can do it are born not trained, find them, be nice to

them, look after them, praise them, bring apples and carrots. Remember

their birthdays and more important remember the donkey and pony’s

birthday, (and the letters “PC” still stand for Pony Club).

Child exploitation

You need to have a precocious young boy in rag costume and coal dust

make up to lead the pony on high days and holidays and give an

emotional, Oscar winning performance of Victorian suffering, (before he

leaves for stage school). DVD him, low angle and tears, for the website.

Impossible

Your hardest job will be putting mascara on a fell pony’s eyelashes. I

have done enough working coal mine visits to know everyone looks like

they are wearing mascara and the ponies would have been no exception!

The Holy Grail Attraction is a new foal, big eyes looking up are a fool

proof formula, it has worked for babies and kittens for millennia.

Set up a web site and social media sites for the little show off, it will not

have the pulling power of a baby panda, but stoop low for the biggest

“AAAH’s”. DVD of cute, on the website, with its own baby “high vis”.

Remember the logo on the high vis.

Back to hand Power,

with padded wooden versions for tots and adapted shorter machines for

children to try.

All the previous exhibits move up into Mk 3 but with more space for the

outgoing enthusiastic* volunteers to leap on machines and demonstrate

while telling stories, histories, disasters and heroic moments.

*These words were once banned from advertisements placed in a British

Government Job Centre as “discriminatory” by the Asian manager.

Would it be too ambitious to rebuild coaches of the original Whitby and

Pickering Railway, it would need a larger horse and access to some (of

the old?) track bed. 2nd class open covered coach and 3rd class open

uncovered coach (but with fresh straw, of course), for everyday use.

Crich Tramway Museum have one and borrow a big horse.

Museum Sites eat money, (services in water, electricity and internet are

reasonably priced to install and run).

Drains and Insurance are the Insatiable Monsters.

Drains have to be incredibly well planned and executed, even land

drains for the car park. Avoid Roof Gutters & downpipes on buildings at

all costs, they are always a maintenance nightmare. There are

alternatives.

Insurance means clearly labelled working CCTV everywhere, or you will

be consumed by fraudsters hunting compensation.

No Win, No Fee Lawyers are the life threatening, blood sucking parasites

of the modern age, they make malaria seem benign. The Americans

have disclaimers for visitors to sign, I eagerly await them in the UK.

This museum advice will be raspberried by the “bricks and mortar”, (lots

of little rooms), brigade, no fun some people!

They hate the “drive out cost” approach.

You “have to” spend hundreds of thousands of Pounds or

Euros (if not millions), to award contracts, and be “real”

and taken seriously.

Not me, I always ask why spend so much? and “they” say

“everyone does”.

Granny used to say, “This everyone is rich? This everyone is

successful? This everyone is happy?” the reply to all 3 is No and

Granny says. “Why copy poor, unsuccessful, unhappy losers”.

Christchurch in New Zealand had an earthquake a few years ago and they are using

containers to create new innovative homes and buildings. (containers are earthquake proof) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=christchurch+new+zealand+container+architecture&tbm=isch&imgil=Q-

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Quick, cheap, decent portable housing, of course the UK has absolutely no need for it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_City “Container City is an aberration that will never appear elsewhere” A. Nimby Esq.

House conversion Mexico from Angela Burton

Container Information http://www.universal-containers.com/containers/high-cube-van-containers/

http://www.1stcontainers.co.uk/news/2013/12/16/what-to-consider-with-a-repurposed-shipping-container-floor

Local

http://www.lcscontainerservices.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/J14751-JTL-LCS-Brochure-2013-V4-DP-WC-LR.pdf

Posh one

http://www.lioncontainers.co.uk/40ft-university-travel-hub-container-case-study.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_container_architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dordoy_Bazaar

From Tomas Vysouzil Row Boat in the Czech Republic I have to say, I have

two new machines

to report to all

hand power friends

around the world, a

rebuilt Row Boat,

and my own

project, a Sheffield

velocipede replica,

but don´t look at

the background in

our workshop,

there is a mess!

Many, many

greetings from all in

the Czech Republic

Tom

A beauty with brakes on both ends. The wheels are typical of the breed in the old Austro Hungarian Empire – see below

Unloading the rebuilt “split drive” Row Boat.

Toms own Velocipede build

Coming along very nicely. Ed.

From Tam Naylor

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Velocipede Event

Monday 31st October,

Tuesday 1st November. Exciting News I have just met with the Operating and P-Way departments

about the autumn rally and what has been agreed is that on

Tuesday 1st November we can have access from Trout

Farm to the inner home at Levisham, a very short walk into the

station for tea and buns. If Carriage and Wagon aren't shunting

we can also run into Pickering station but the big news is on

Monday 31st October we have access between Grosmont

and Goathland. Hows about that then? We will have to have a

big talk as to which machines are going all the way up and

back on the 1 in 49 but any others will get a good run to Esk

Valley or Green End, at least. This is fantastic news. Liz Parkes,

our Ops boss was very supportive of our event and did make

the point last year that we had no trouble on the 1 in 60.

All this and Beckhole pub will be open for drinking up leftovers

on Sunday evening.

Life is good Tam _____________________________________________________________________________________________

No trees were harmed in the making of this eNewsletter.

From Christoph Berger

A brake for his beautiful Kalamazoo restoration.

A beaut, click on the story On the website www.velocipedes.co.uk, Newsletter 66

Photos Philip Bedford of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway

From Philip Bedford

Michael Kennedy and Michael

Portillo on the Cavan and Leitrim

Railway Inspection Bicycle,

Dromod, Co. Leitrim, 1 July, 2016

Jacqui,

This is a replica of the original C&L inspection

bicycle which sadly was scrapped in 1959 when

the railway closed, the wheels are originals

acquired by Michael Kennedy over the years from

different sources.

See also our facebook site

https://www.facebook.com/CavanAnd-Leitrim-

Railway-438598052999183/

Hartley and Teetor bike, parent of the wheels.

A lovely rebuild where did they find brand new Brooks “old” seats?

The jockey wheel chain tensioner is a simple new idea

Instead of the eccentric “tandem” adjuster in the pedal hub.

From a Hartley and Teetor Advert.

“The machine shown has seats for two riders abreast, and runs on

four 17-inch flanged steel wheels fitted with corrugated rubber

tyres, and weighs 75 lbs. The cars are usually geared to 60,

although this is a matter of choice. They can be driven at 30 miles

an hour on a falling gradient, 15 to 20 miles on the level, and can

easily be worked up a grade of 1 in 30”.

The rubber strips around the tread are very

important, if you don’t have them you will get

spoke breakages.

The cheap easy modern replacement are strips cut

from tractor tyres and fixed with impact adhesive.

Other preserved machines have the replacement rubber tyres too.