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Lyd is a rolling chassis with the boiler and tanks stacked on it for somewhere to put them. It has its coupling and connecting rods on it. The majority of the other parts are made.
These are the weighshaft bearings which go just inboard of the radius links.
These are the rear bearings for the valve tail rod and they mount on the top of the top slide bar. As you can see from the base they actually slip over it to locate them
Most of the valve gear is made
Above is a valve rod. The new pictures revealed it had the forked end but the set down at the left hand end is hidden by the motion bracket and the protector plate in all the pictures
This bit is the vibrating link that fastens to the hole half way up the conn rod
The bit above is the radius rod, recently discovered to be forked and the vibrating link.
The final bit i could find last week was the return crank rod
 
What isn't made yet is the radius link. It seems likely that back when they were making them all the time they had a special machine for machining the slots. Now it looks like it will have to be made as a two part bolted structure. The patterns are at the foundry now.
 
         We could only find two copies of the drawing on A4 last week. They are scanned here but then thumbnailed as they are big files. I've left them at high resolution as they are quiet detailed.