[Fascinating old adverts for railway equipment]

The unit looks to be in the original 1930s LMS livery.

["Welsh Highland Railway Developments & Progress"?]

Tea urn?

 

[1949 oo gauge Graham farish black 5. Where to find?]

5 hours ago, John R Smith said:

 

Have you read the description on this listing? What a load of total codswallop!

 

Gets my b***cks of the week award . . .

 

 

It's AI.  There's a lot of it about this past month or so on ebay. "The scale is 1:148 and the gauge is OO" is a classic! Obviously it spotted that Graham Farish products are now N gauge but didn't actually understand the concept of scale and gauge description.

[Unusual Engineers Wagon - Any Information ?]

I thought it looked familiar; I photographed at Leyton Yard too in 1978.

[GraFar OO 2 pole motor replacement]

8 hours ago, bobthemilk said:

Here is another ebay special , what attracted me was the AI / verbose description

Yes, it stinks, doesn't it? There seem to be a lot of those crass and often inaccurate descriptions lately a.k.a. bovine waste.

 

"The scale is 1:148 and the gauge is OO"  🙄

[4mm Van Signage]

Also Mabex. 2019 catalogue here.

[Dismantling a Hornby Mk2D BSO]

If it's a Mk.2D it may be the ex-Dapol, ex-Airfix model. Might be worth searching for clues on that. From memory the seating unit is screwed to the floor (possibly from the inside; it's a long time since I last had one) and then the flush glazing clips onto that, the glazing keeping the body on.

[What Kit Car Is This?]

The most likely candidates are Falcon, Ashley or Elva, though Martin is a possibility. The picture below was taken in 1958 at the Robin Hood, Epping which was (briefly) the works for Ashley.

 

 

There were lots of similar kit cars though, some manufacturers quite short lived.

 

The car in my photo seems to be an Ashley 1172 which makes sense for both time and place.

[Spelling Mistakes on Models (and the prototype)]

Another Lima model  86235 Navalty. Now there's a novelty.

[What to do with old Tri-ang Princesses....]

Ah, well not the first post, just the one in the Railway Modeller article then.

[What to do with old Tri-ang Princesses....]

One in the second post on the first page of this thread, not to mention the article in the Railway Modeller, April 1970.

[Mk2 BFK Roof detail]

If the conversion is to be based on the current Mk.2 Farish by Bachmann coaches I would use the same offsets from the centre line or it will look odd in a rake. There was extensive research done at the time by Colin Allbright so they're pretty accurate. The pairs of in-line vents over the compartments do centre on the windows. The vents at the luggage end and over the guard's compartment will be the same on BFK and BSO as the same body shell was used.

As for the toilet, the nearer of those two fittings (on the centre-line) is original, but I'm afraid I don't know when the other, larger one was fitted.

[Mk2 BFK Roof detail]

Here's the roof vent arrangement:

b = roof ends painted blue (Mk.2/2a)

v - domed vent

t = toilet vent

 

You could also use the old Tri-ang Hornby/Hornby Mk.2 BFK as a visual guide.

[Fascinating old adverts for railway equipment]

6 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

The French Inox coaches of that type, which I think might have been a licensed US design, were very smooth indeed, and had really neat interior detailing, everything made from stainless steel. I wasn’t sure whether the ride was down to clever bogie design or the fact that they were immensely heavy

The basic shells were apparently 10% lighter than the same DEV design on mild steel. DEV history (in French)

[Colourisation: problems ahead.]

19 hours ago, Pacific231G said:

A few years ago I wanted to know what shade of green a typically weathered French post box would have been in the 1950s. So, when I got hold of the colour (not colourised)* version of Jacques Tati's 1949 Jour de Fête I thought a scene where the local kids are taking the mick out of François the local postman around a post box would provide some kind of answer. How wrong I was.

Of course, everyone knows post boxes are red, as this old postcard* proves:

 

 

*or not 😈

[Colourisation: problems ahead.]

I think the problem here is not so much the exact shade and perception of colour, which is really another well discussed topic, but the possible use of random colour and guesses when converting a monochrome image. Personally I'd rather have the original non-colour picture.

[For those interested in old cars.]

15 hours ago, steve1 said:

Anyone remember Colt cars and is that a Talbot Solara? Wolseley Farina being fuelled.

 

14 hours ago, Captain Cuttle said:

Yes thats a Solara

Given the car towards the front of the picture has the 'Colt' (Mitsubishi) 'star' on the grille, it isn't going to be a Chrysler or Talbot Solara. Some searching reveals it as a 2nd generation Mitsubishi Lancer, though in the UK it was still called the Colt Lancer, a new model in 1979.

[Hornby (Margate) 20T Brake Van]

17 hours ago, kevinlms said:

If I remember correctly, that was the old Hornby Dublo body that Hornby Railways used on their standard LWB chassis and fitted the light, in 1974 I believe.

http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_year_details.asp?itemyearid=957

Same length as the HD model, but a new tool. The HD LMS brake van used GWR partitions as did their BR brake van.

Hornby 1974

Hornby Dublo circa 1960

[Airfix/Hornby B set]

The long buffers would be the then standard square shank type with large round heads.

[Help identifying a wagon type and kit manufacturer GWR wagons]

The glass carrying wagon (Coral A) actually has "A K's MODEL" cast into the underside in your photo. Is the other (top) wagon cast or etched brass? It's not clear from the pictures.

Here's a list of GWR wagon kits.

[Original Freightliner Box at Popham?]

Going by the number of vertical seams I reckon it's a 'C' type container, so 27' long (8' x 8' cross section) the maximum length allowed on trailers at the time. These were withdrawn comparatively early, superseded by 30' and then 40' types.

[Newman Miniatures Crampton]

The three compartment coach looks rather like the 'Prusssian' coaches Bachmann did.

[Märklin announces Flying Scotsman in H0]

3 hours ago, chiefpenguin said:

If the numbers are signwritten that could explain differences ?

Not really; they're right on the real thing when you compare them to the official specifications.

Actual painted numbers.

BR Gill Sans.

 

The Marklin numbers would look better if they were spaced a little further apart. Indeed if the spacing had been right the typeface errors wouldn't have been very obvious. It's only when you look closely you can see the '0's are a bit too elliptical and the '3' is symmetrical top to bottom; Gill Sans '3' has a very slightly longer bottom stroke and the centre part angles down very slightly. The signwriter has done his job correctly.

[Märklin announces Flying Scotsman in H0]

4 hours ago, chiefpenguin said:

IIRC some of the UK prototype models from "European" manufacture were a sort of 3.75mm/foot scale ?

British Trix and Rivarossi both used 1:80 scale, though some Trix models: AL1 (because it started as Lilliput) and the late '60s A2, A3 and A4 LNER Pacifics were 4mm scale while the 16t mineral and pig iron wagons were 'accidentally' 4mm scale because their 1:80 scale 17' 6" chassis works out at 16' 6" in 4mm scale.

[Two Interesting Dublo Wagons - Are they HD originals ?]

Age yellowing. Probably if you rub with very fine abrasive they will look grey again.