Laser scanning helps Hengist builders improve on BR 1950 design
Oct 02, 2020
3 minutes
By Robin Jones
SSLC
THE University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is helping the builders of new BR Clan Pacific No. 72010 Hengist‘redesign’ the locomotive for the 21st century by ironing out faults in the original manufacturing process.
The Standard Steam Locomotive Company’s Clan Project needs to turn the 900 microfilmed BR drawings from the original 10 Class 6 4-6-2s into modern CAD drawings through laser scanning.
At the same time, AMRC Training
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