THE SHEERLEGS
Photos and/or Information required
RB
Many photos of the sheerlegs have been published on this website & elsewhere, and I am commencing a working scale model for exhibition. I have a copy of the original working drawings of the legs etc, but I DO NOT have any details of the mechanism which operated the actual movement of the legs, except I am aware that the rear leg moved back & forwards by means of a wormscrew drive, but I do not have details of exactly how it was driven. I know that there were two motors connected to the sheerlegs, one for operating the movement back & forwards of the single rear leg and another motor for operating the lifting cables.
Is there anyone out there who has photos or drawings or memories of the operating mechanism which they could share with me so that I can complete my drawings and get my model underway please. RB