Other Taycol products
Taycol Model Marine Electric Motors
Taycol Oddities - a series of musings on various Taycol-related matters or features of the Taycol motors which I don't understand.
The Taycol company, though small, made a variety of products - starting, I believe with jigs and other products for toolmakers. The electric motors were just one branch which became profitable as the modelling hobby flourished. They made a number of slim permanent magnet motors to fit inside OO/HO gauge trains, both sold under their own name and for other manufacturers. More details of these can be found on the large number of model railway sites on the Web.
But (last year!) a reader in New Zealand sent me some details of the classic Comet motor being used in a commercial O gauge train set which I felt I should share with you. Thanks to Colin Duthrie, we have some rare pictures of a product made by Donald Cranko who was making small live steam train models between about 1945 - 1955.
You can see that Cranko adapted the Comet motor (probably with the original Taycol output pinion) to drive a simple electric 0-4-0 shunter. I suspect that very few were made...
Taycol marine motors were used for other than marine applications, of course - driving Meccano items for instance, but this is the only commercial non-marine use I have seen for one of the Marine range :
