The Worad Company of Minneapolis
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:21 am
Hi all,
I'm interested in finding out any information about the Worad Company of Minneapolis who offered drawings and castings for a 1/2" scale 4-8-4 Northern in the late 1940's. Does anyone know anything about them or even have one of their locomotives? Did they produce any other designs?
One of our US members has a part built loco and a complete set of drawings that he has offered to us (the N25GA) for our drawings archive.
It would seem that the loco was designed by a Mr Harold Darr who was/may have been part of the Worad company along with a Mr Howard Woo.
As well as the drawings, our member also has copies of correspondence between the builder of his chassis ( Mr Howard Glass, a watchmaker of Canton, Ohio) and Mr Darr.
John
I'm interested in finding out any information about the Worad Company of Minneapolis who offered drawings and castings for a 1/2" scale 4-8-4 Northern in the late 1940's. Does anyone know anything about them or even have one of their locomotives? Did they produce any other designs?
One of our US members has a part built loco and a complete set of drawings that he has offered to us (the N25GA) for our drawings archive.
It would seem that the loco was designed by a Mr Harold Darr who was/may have been part of the Worad company along with a Mr Howard Woo.
As well as the drawings, our member also has copies of correspondence between the builder of his chassis ( Mr Howard Glass, a watchmaker of Canton, Ohio) and Mr Darr.
John