Ernest W.Twining
Born in Bristol on 29 March 1875; died 10 September 1956. Trained
as a telephone engineer. He also took art lessons at night school. After
working on the Glasgow telephone system for a while, he established a commercial
art studio in London, where, as a side-line, he branched out into designing
and making model aircraft for sale, in due course expanding to the manufacture
of full size gliders. His model-making work brought him into contact with
Bassett-Lowke, the Northampton model making firm, for whom he did sub-contract
work. In 1920 he founded Twining Models at Northampton, which manufactured
glass-case models of industrial, architectural, advertising and transport
themes. Twining was polymathic in his interests, and was active in the worlds
of model railways, art and design, aeronautics, astronomy and photography,
ships and ship models, and stained glass. In Northampton, his windows can
be found at Holy Trinity Church Hall, St Edmunds, Hardingstone, St Francis
de Sales, Wolverton and the Northhampton Museum. Wikipedia 2014-09-29.
Plate 1 Broad gauge Great Western built 1848 |
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Plate 2 LSWR 2-4-0 Milo |
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Plate 3 LBSCR No. 122 |
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Plate 4 CR 8ft single No. 83 |
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Plate 5 Bristol & Exeter Pearson 4-2-4T |
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Plate 6 NBR 4-4-0 No. 224 |
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Plate 7 LBSCR 2-4-0 No. 111 |
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Plate 8 LNWR 2-2-2 No. 291 Prince of Wales |
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Plate 9 SER Cramptons Nos. 85 and 92 |
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Plate 10 SER Crampton No. 137 |