A Guide to Simplex Narrow Gauge Locomotives 2nd Edition

This second edition, now in A4 hardback format covers each of the narrow gauge locomotive types produced by Motor Rail Ltd and its predecessors. It also looks at the locomotive copies made by F C Hibberd and Kent Construction, Margolis and Ralph, and EC Lenning of South Africa. From around 1987, the designs of Simplex Mechanical Handling were continued by Alan Keef Ltd from their site at Lea Line in Gloucestershire. New in this edition; 30 colour photographs of Simplexes at work in industry, in addition to the 87 B&W images; a works number decoder, allowing you to find the Simplex model from a works number, as well as a table of locomotives types with the works numbers for each type. Various other updates have been made, including corrections and additions to surviving narrow gauge Simplex locomotives in the British Isles, and this list now includes locomotives in Ireland. The 38 line drawings now include dimensioned works plate drawings detailing some of the changes which took place over time.