Chilton Iron Works made a very interesting range of wagon kits which have been unavailable for a long time. The range included 4 types of Chaldron. This one is kit C4, a 4T Lambton design.

Some might think it a waste of time describing the build of a kit which is no longer produced but I hope that some of you may find it interesting.

The kit consists of 6 whitemetal castings, a small piece of planked plasticard and a nickel silver etch;

Here's the chassis, on the left is the etched coupling, bent over at the inner end to make a stronger joint, and one of my handmade couplings on the right (the instructions tell you to use a piece of bent wire at this end);

Both couplings are drilled and pinned to the chassis as I did with my RT Models Seaham waggons. Remember that chaldron waggons had a chain at one end only and a forked coupling at the other so they could only be coupled up with the brakes on the same side.

The etched baseplate;

These kits were designed for S4, but different base plates could be supplied for OO or EM gauges. Mine (an Ebay purchase) came with a OO baseplate, not a problem as washers can be used to space the wheels out. Look carefully and you can see 3 tabs which are folded back and soldered flat, this provides 3 point compensation. The small tab is for the brake shaft.

Wheels in place, I still need to file the ends of the axles down;

Wheelbase is 16.5mm. Note the brake shaft.

And a couple of shots of the body glued together;

Paul.