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TALKING TO BR’S LAST GREAT STEAM DESIGNER ROBERT RIDDLES

This original account, also featuring the speech made by Riddles that day, was subsequently acquired and conserved by former Steam World Historical Consultant, the late Richard Strange.

When Historical Consultant Richard Strange died on March 8 2020, his daughter Sally asked us if we’d take charge of the very large collection of documents which her father left crammed into boxes, files and drawers,

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