I suspect that number 764, now named 'Sir Gyles Isham', was produced new back in 1948 that its small array of gauges were not mounted on a nice piece of crafted hardwood and that they would not have stayed immaculately polished as here for very long! As far as driver information goes this is pretty much it but it was all that was needed for the Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 shunter to undertake its work in and around the MoD's RNAD Bedenham facility near Portsmouth where it started work from new in 1953.
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