Gerry Penrose

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.