Talk:Curly Lawrence

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Lawrence and Harris
According to the editor of Model Engineer, for several years, there had been complaints about Lawrences designs and his apparent lack of understanding of valve events. The amount of technical qualification that a locomotive driver actually gains must also be questioned.

K.N. Harris was requested to produce modification drawings for Lawrences designs and after modification the locos apparently steamed better.

Towards the end of both mens lives, Lawrence issued a challenge to Harris about locomotive design. Harris accepted the challenge and began designing and building. With Harris well into manufacture, Lawrence later withdrew his challenge.

The contest was obviously never played out and forty years later the arguments seem rather obscure but it seems likely that Harris as the properly trained engineer would have certainly won the contest.

The various arguments between the two men spilled over into the design of steam cars. Having personally reviewed the articles on this subject by both men, I am firmly of the opinion that Harris had a far greater grasp of the design problems and reality of steam cars.

Considering the vast amount of acrimonious correspondence from the two men that was published in the columns of the Model Engineer over the years, I don't think that they ever met. Within a few months of the challenge, both men were dead anyway.AT Kunene (talk) 12:45, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

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It is clear from LBSC's writings that his sexuality was 'unclear' and though named as a boy, he may have been raised, initially as a girl. He describes one incident where he posed as a 'hapless maiden' to entrap a boy who was playing the part of a highwayman. He also had the documented habit or wearing women's shoes. Perhaps what is most extraordinary is that man who had such a strong feminine side worked in some very demanding jobs (a railway fireman's job was not the easiest!), in engineering (he supervised women workers) and written and worked in model engineering for many years, often describing very close, if platonic, relationships with many male friends, without seeming to have encountered any homohobic responses. The Yowser (talk) 15:02, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

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