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Description: | Model electric locomotive overhauled by Arundel and Co; engineers of Newark. Pictured outside the company's workshop on Mills Drive off Farndon Lane the loco is on its way back to Lord Gretton's estate at Stapleford Park near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, where it hauled visitors around the park on a miniature railway.
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-Simpsons, Douglas had always pursued engineering as a hobby with a fully equipped workshop and lathe at home where he designed and built models powered by steam or electricity. After the Second World War (during which he served in the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) in Newark), Douglas set up his own small engineering business at Mills Drive on Farndon Road, Newark. (in the former premises of Horace Mills basket works) Originally, the business D. Arundel and Co. concerned itself with general engineering, but came increasingly to specialise in the design and manufacture of woodworking lathes and machinery. Over the years the business also produced ventilation systems, engineering models, and, for a time, even experimented with growing mushrooms. Model-making is perhaps the area for which Douglas is most fondly remembered. He produced a number of steam or electrically powered passenger hauling model locomotives for use on miniature tourist railways at country houses, notably at Lord Grettons estate at Stapleford Park near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. Douglas home was at No.47 Hawton Road, Newark, where, in 1980, he married Rosamund Ford (known as April). In 1988 the Arundel woodworking and machinery business was taken over by a Sheffield-based company. All manufacturing was transferred to Sheffield although Douglas remained a consultant until his retirement in 1990. He died on 1st July 1997 aged 72. | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | North East Midland Photographic Record | Subjects: | select Please | Source: | Picture the Past OAI feed | Creator: | Arundel, Douglas | Identifier: | http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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