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LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot class No 6100 'Royal Scot' is seen fitted with experimental smoke deflectors to the chimney whilst at head of the up 'Lakes' express on 18th August 1928. The very wide smokebox was one of the largest on a british locomotive and cause smoke to obscure the drivers view. Initially a number of methods were attempted to resolve this problem including the one above before the smoke deflectors seen in other images were adopted as the universal solution. Built at Derby Works to Lot 73 in June 1930 No 6100 permanently swapped identities with No 6152 'The Kings Dragoon Guardsman' when the LMS were invited to send an locomotive as part of the the Century of Progress Exposition Chicago in 1933. In her new guise No 6100 also went on tour of the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America, the engine and train covered 11,194 miles over the railroads of the North American continent and was inspected by 3,021,601 people. The locomotive carried a plaque to this affect as well as naming the support crew as W Gilbertson - Driver, T Blackett - Fireman, J Jackson - Fireman and WC Woods - Fitter. Due to US Railroad regulations it was also fitted with a cowcatcher, head lamp on the top of the smokebox and a bell above the front bufferbeam. The latter it retained during its LMS and British Railways working life until October 1962 when it was withdrawn from Nottingham shed - the first of the class to be withdrawn - to be preserved.
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