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| Mamod Collector |
Sometime in 1954I like this photo as it shows the evelution of the flat base SE2 in 1954To the all new raised base SE2 also in 1954 There where a few minor changes, I.E. a bigger box Anyway I'll show a few pics of the differences 
Same designed box, but bigger 
Boxes with engines 
A noticable difference, the whistles  
The red painted water level plugs remained the same  
Diffferent coloured boiler bands  
The piston shaft  
Mamod embosed red thing
 
Oil holes  
All in all minor differences, but still interesting to see them side by side 
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| newts |
Great post Mike, nice engines too
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| Spokesmann |
Very interesting thread this, Ill need to come back to it! | ||
| avenger |
Interesting pics | ||
| Spokesmann |
Very interesting variations and detailing. The painted crank seems to be a curiosity, I have seen a few like this in red, but not a common occurance. I cannot think why they would do it. Perhaps they had one employee who like to mark his or her engines differently or they were some sort of production test or marker. The raised base SE2 is a later one I d guess since the it had the eyelet type conrod end (My terminology by the way!)
The raised base also seem to have no decal or is it stuck on the other side like mine?, Mike? There seem to be a number of variations on the arm type whistles, some with insulation, some with red painted handles, some with longer arms than others!... Earlier boiler bands tend to be copper coloured, I think its some sort of plating. Regulator handles on the SE2 got gradually shorter towards the 1960s, although these are both the longer variety. On the flatbase its unusual to see a plain crank, at this time Mamod were using a stamped (debossed) Mamod mark on them or a raised (embossed) Mamod logo, brass plating is very much of the time though. These were the top of the range Mamod stationaries in their day, the SE2 being in production from 1937-67 (excluding the war years). Both attractive and very collectable engines today. |
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| Spokesmann |
Please remember that there is more info on SE2 variations to be found here:
http://freesteammamod.myfreeforum.org/about2189.html |
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| Mamod Collector |
Thx very much for the feedback guys
The flatbase SE2 below might be somewhat of a rarety We know Mr Malins introduced the mazak flywheel in 1953 And we know the raised base was introduced in 1954 Thus giving the SE2 below a possable production run of only one year (Give or take a week or too) 
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| steamyjim |
A very interesting thread Mike! The engines are just beautiful, the 53 SE2 especially.
I am on the lookout for a 53 SE2 to go with my MM2 and SE1 of the same era... |
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| Mamod Collector |
Thx Jim
Any chance you could post a pic of your SE1 to this thread Jim |
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| steamyjim |
I don't think I have a picture of it at the moment. Shall try and grab one ASAP. I had it running for the first time in my possesion today, ran for about 20 minutes
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| newts |
Just tunring the clock back that little bit further, a year or two.
The more common flat base with brass flywheel. 
Another crank style 
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| steamyjim |
Just remembered that Mike tooks pictures of the MM2 and SE1 at Exeter on the weekend. I hope he doesn't mind me posting the pictures up (if you do, remove them).
Anyway... The MM2 with blue decal and mazak flywheel from 1953... 
And an SE2 with blue decal and mazak flywheel again from 1953... 
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| Spokesmann |
Dont forget the SE1 of this period....
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| Spokesmann |
From around this period lineshafts began to get a raised base too, as well as the familiar red oval decal. From my own experience a raised base lineshaft with this decal seems to hard to get hold of. Like the FB ones. Just my observation and not a stated fact.
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| Spokesmann |
My c54 SE2 hard a work, it was steamed at Exeter last weekend and put in a good show.
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