Published originally in 1969 in hardback with dustjacket, this is the revised 1976 Model & Allied Publications edition in paperback format, 144pp, ISBN 0852424833, written by Martin Evans and drawing on the work by other boilermaking authorities such as C.M. Keiller, Mr. K.N.Harris, Mr. Edgar T. Westbury and Mr. J. Ewins. When originally published, this book was a totally new work on model boilers and is still considered as a normal text on the topic of designing and building a model locomotive boiler from a man who was both editor of Model Engineer magazine and a well known and highly admired force in model steam locomotives in his own right with a noted history of professionally designing and building model steam locomotives of all gauges, many numbers of which are still in action around amateur and club tracks today, and with new builds still being constructed. He was editor of model engineer magazine Contains 9 chapters and 37 plates of illustrations. In the book, the author insist