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Could the cladding be a later addition?

Wrong part of Wales! I doubt anything labelled Bala would be going anywhere near "the mean streets of Cardiff".... Jason

I know. It can be built in Outer Mongolia, it's still German owned.

Cash all day long. I'm afraid I don't like venues where everything is card only. Especially music ones as it's difficult to keep an eye on your spending. You get a few rounds in and a bit of merch and then you find out you've spent over £100! Something you wouldn't do if all you had to spend is what you have in your pocket. And how often does the system crash? Pretty often in my experience. I remember being at a music festival and you couldn't even get a drink or anything to eat for hours as everything was down. No popping out to the local cash machine as there wasn't one for miles. Jason

Needs - things that are needed to run the layout correctly. Could be anything from one 14XX and auto trailer, or a dozen LNER A4s if you are modelling the ECML Wants - things you like that don't fit in with the above scenario ISTR that David Jenkinson did a series of Railway Modeller articles on the subject in the 1970s called something like Rationalise Your Stock Building. The conclusion was most people have too many rare locos because they like them and not enough of the ordinary locomotives such as 4Fs. Jason

Who owns it though? When I worked in Ford a few years back they were quite proud of the fact they were an American company. Especially since they never got lumped in with the poor quality British car makers of the era.

Maybe because most of the words that don't follow the rule are foreign? See what I did there?

Reservoir Cats!

Someone got a bargain. Those MAJ kits alone normally go for about £40 each.... https://www.sheffieldauctiongallery.com/auction/lot/lot-150---oo-gauge-wagon-kits-boxed-seemingly-complete/?lot=19624&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=72&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=96&pn=2&g=1 Jason

Maybe they compare the meerkats.... Anyone outside the UK will probably be confused (which is a different insurance company).

Well they certainly eat popcorn. Saw it on a documentary with them going to a cinema. Simples!

Why aye man, Newcastle looks a bit different these days. Where's the Toon? At least there are black and white stripes but no idea who number 30 is.

Could it be a mistaking of SE Finecast for Nucast. SE Finecast apparently can supply parts for their kits and are now part of Squires. Jason

I quite like Eurovision. Seems that a Swiss bloke wearing Bagpuss is winning at the moment....

1970s surely? BR was still building cattle wagons well into the 1950s. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brcattle Jason