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[[Charles Penrose]] was live steamer in Ontario, Canada.  He owned and operated a hobby shop named "Penrose Models" in Oakville.
[[Charles Penrose]] was live steamer in Ontario, Canada.  He owned and operated a hobby shop named "Pen Models" in Oakville.
 
From <i>[[Live Steam Magazine]]</i>, November 1976:
 
: [[Gerry Penrose]] began making rubber-band powered modesl of airplanes in England back in 1932.  In 1946, after serving in the <i>RAF<i/> from 1939 to 1945 when he crashed, Gerry bought a small lathe and built [[LBSC]]'s <i>Tich</i>, his first Live Steam model and his first use of a lathe.  Since then he says he has "built three more, plus about four boxes of mistakes!"
 
: [[Gerry Penrose|Gerry]] and his family came to Canada in 1954 and has been in the television repair business (which he learned by the we-finger-and-screw-driver method, he says) and a film equipment service business.
 
: In 1969 [[Gerry Penrose|Gerry]] started <i>Pen Models</i> in the basement of his home.  The business expanded and, in 1973, he opened a store in suburban Toronto.


[https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/forum/general/410-model-engineer-magizine Rich Carlstedt wrote in 2002]:
[https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/forum/general/410-model-engineer-magizine Rich Carlstedt wrote in 2002]:

Revision as of 11:19, 15 November 2019


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

From Live Steam Magazine, November 1976:

Gerry Penrose began making rubber-band powered modesl of airplanes in England back in 1932. In 1946, after serving in the RAF from 1939 to 1945 when he crashed, Gerry bought a small lathe and built LBSC's Tich, his first Live Steam model and his first use of a lathe. Since then he says he has "built three more, plus about four boxes of mistakes!"
Gerry and his family came to Canada in 1954 and has been in the television repair business (which he learned by the we-finger-and-screw-driver method, he says) and a film equipment service business.
In 1969 Gerry started Pen Models in the basement of his home. The business expanded and, in 1973, he opened a store in suburban Toronto.

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.


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