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| Keywords: 'The Rocket' locomotive engine - Stephenson (25778402425).jpg We are going to start this week with a BANG A Rocket no less from the Mason collection but this was as Carol would say out forring Mason had many shots in his collection that came from sources other than his own photography The wonderful Rocket was the wonder of its age and has lost none of its appeal for anoraks and children With thanks in particular today to /photos/8468254 N02/ derangedlemur /photos/129555378 N07/ sharon corbet /photos/beachcomberaustralia/ beachcomberaustralia and /photos/91549360 N03/ O Mac it seems likely that this item from the Mason Collection is a copy of a similar image used for a turn-of-century https //en wikipedia org/wiki/London_and_North_Western_Railway London and North Western Railway postcard While the whiteout on the background make it difficult to judge scale or location today's contributors highlight the similarity with https //web archive org/web/20160315003700/http //i ebayimg com/00/s/MTAxN1gxNjAw/z/j8MAAOSwEgVWR92O/ _57 JPG this LNWR postcard from 1904 likely making the engine shown a late-19th/early-20th century replica or model O Mac offers a concrete theory that what we see here therefore is a model built by the chief mechanical engineer of the LNWR in the mid-1880s for the Liverpool Exhibition of 1887 Photographer Thomas H Mason Collection http //catalogue nli ie/Collection/vtls000029624 Mason Photographic Collection Date ca 1890-1910 NLI Ref http //catalogue nli ie/Record/vtls000539122 M24/62/4 You can also view this image and many thousands of others on the NLI ™s catalogue at http //catalogue nli ie catalogue nli ie https //www flickr com/photos/nlireland/25778402425/ 'The Rocket' locomotive engine - Stephenson https //www flickr com/people/47290943 N03 National Library of Ireland on The Commons http //www nli ie/en/flickr-commons aspx National Library of Ireland on The Commons Flickr Commons Flickr-no known copyright restrictions PD-1923 PD-Old National Library of Ireland on The Commons https //flickr com/photos/47290943 N03/25778402425 2016-04-16 15 31 20 No known copyright restrictions 1887 London and North Western Railway Images from the National Library of Ireland Robert Stephenson Stephenson's Rocket replicas | ||||
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