Julius’ metric drawings for a great project: the Garrett 7nhp, an attractive traction engine which is rarely modelled. Other drawings and castings (some of which might be useful for a metric version) should be available, although Julius’ designs are all designed to be fabricated.

Richard Garrett & Sons, founded by Richard Garrett in 1778, was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, steam engines and trolleybuses at their factory, Leiston Works, in Suffolk.

In the late 1840s the company began producing portable steam engines, and grew to a major business employing around 2,500 people.

Richard Garrett III, grandson of the company's founder, visited the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, where he saw some new American manufacturing ideas. Richard Garrett III introduced flow line production, a very early assembly line, in 1852. This was known as 'The Long Shop'.

A machine would start at one end of the Long Shop and as it progressed through the building it would stop at various stages where new parts would be added. There was also an upper level where other parts were made; which would be lowered over a balcony and then fixed onto the machine at ground level. When the machine reached the end of the shop, it would be complete.

The company was purchased by Beyer, Peacock & Company in 1932 and continued as Richard Garrett Engineering Works until it finally closed in 1981. Part of the old works is now a Museum.

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