Gerry Penrose

Charles Penrose was live steamer in Ontario, Canada. He owned and operated a hobby shop named "Penrose Models" in Oakville.

Rich Carlstedt wrote in 2002:


 * I remember, and knew Gerry Penrose. I lived in Canada in the 1970's and use to go to his basement shop in Oakville, Ontario to buy steam engine castings...he really was quite a guy, can't comment on his writing as I was not into 3/4 scale locomotives.


 * Did you know he was very mechanically minded and went with the University ( of Ontario, I think) as a technician on a scientific exploration trip to the North Pole (early 1970 ?)....He kept the snowmobiles running under extreme duress as you can imagine...he was very resourceful man.


 * Interesting comment you made. He told me he had a battle going on with Model Engineer at the time, but I didn't understand the real issues.

Beaver
Gerry designed and published drawings for an 0-6-0 in 3/4 inch scale he called Beaver. The design was published in Live Steam Magazine starting in November 1976.

Several mistakes crept into the design. An editorial on page 21 of the December 1976 issue of Live Steam claimed the mistakes were introduced by a contract draftsman, and corrections were printed.

It is claimed that the Beaver design drew heavily from Martin Evans Caribou, and subsequently a lawsuit was failed against Live Steam Magazine for publishing Gerry's design.