Sorry about the delay in recent posts but a combination of holidays and hospital appointments for various people have made the past three weeks a bit busy.  Anyway we had a good working party today. Four of us, with a new recruit, Martin, who has a good engineering background. Paul Abell, a railway journalist, turned up plus Mike Waring. Mike concentrated on filling and rubbing down various parts of the bulkheads ready for painting next week. The saloon was nearly finished last week with both casement windows fitted in the door screens, the other seat (A side) was fitted last week along with the final ventilator window. The interior now looks good but the presence of the seats does make sitting down to discuss things an attractive prospect.

Paul worked on fitting the first parts of the bell system by drilling and filing the four holes in each corner of the saloon so that the two rods fit straight and true along the cantrails.  I now have to finish the design of the various other parts of the bell system such as handles and support pillars as well as the bells themselves.  Martin and I spent most of the day working on the staircase handrails at D end and they are starting to look something like. I took my camera but forgot to use it as I was quite busy. Lots of little details but things are coming together.