As it looks like "Carette Week " on the show us yer tinplate thread I will dig into the Archives myself and post up my Winteringham Loco .. I posted it here on the forums in April last year I believe?
As you can see its certainly not in running condition , but this loco came to me courtesy of an EBay seller who had no idea what it was and listed it as an " Old Brass push toy train "
I near snapped my neck doing a double take LOL ... So began a very tense 6 days of stalking this auction and hoping no-one else would find it , it was listed under tin toys rather than anything train related ... the final day arrived and with 10 seconds to go on the item I gave it my best price .. fully expecting to be sniped by a fellow collector ... and got it for the opening bid !
$12 Australian ! ( about 8$US ) ...
To be fair at the time I didnt know it was a Winteringham , but thought it was actually a Carette ( or similar)
It is missing the piston and cylinder for the steam propulsion as well as the burner , but it is a restoration possibility ( I am pretty sure an adapted mamod will work!)
But as history tells us ( and as Daniel mentions above ) the Carette tooling went to England after Carette dissolved and they were obtained by Winteringham ( who was a design/supply company to Bassett-Lowke)
Many of the Carette tooled British made items were stamped Bassett-Lowke as a matter of course, but on this one little loco it was held back by Winteringhams as they decided the future of their company was not just to act as labour making B-L stuff but instead release a few designs of theirs NOT through B-L !
https://www.brightontoymuseum....ory:Winteringham_Ltd
A stolen youtube video of a working model
I do not know how many of these were made , but it seems very few survived ... in researching it when I got it , I only found a handful of examples and only three running ones
