Image ID: 11187

Model Locomotive, Arundel and Co, Mill Drive, Newark, 1972

Courtesy of Douglas Arundel

Mills Drive off Farndon Road
Newark on Trent
England

Douglas Arundel made this fully working steam-powered model locomotive when he was 14 or 15. he is pictured with the locomotive in later life at his business premises on Mils Drive, Newark. Douglas Arundel was born in Newark on 22nd November 1924. His father, Edgar, was Chief Chemist at Cafferata and Co, the Newark gypsum mining and brick-making company and Douglas, when he attended the Magnus Grammar School in Newark, excelled at mathematics and the sciences. After leaving school Douglas undertook a five year apprenticeship at Worthington-Simpson Ltd., pump manufacturers of Balderton near Newark. Alongside his technical work at Worthington-Simpson

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