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  1. It was Hornby's decision, I remember Simon saying the age group for the TV program had dropped and the Hornby range no longer had mass market appeal.
  2. Perhaps the armchair experts on Copyright should take 1 minute to check before they state what is already registered. I did:
  3. Quite true - also many commentators on this discussion assume the point of this year was to make a big profit - maybe it's been about proving the company is profitable and doing all they can to invest and build the company up. They've done enough - the company has run profitably, none of us seem to be crying out for price rises or less new items which would have made them more profitable.
  4. You could also look at Investment in new tooling. Hornby have lifted this from under £1m in 2016 to close on £5m this year. That will have eaten into profit but has not yet delivered it's income and hence profits. Hence they are investing their Gross profit in future profits - that's not the same has making no net profit full stop.
  5. I like Tillig and got mine from Golden Valley Hobbies - plus I tried the rather nice Styrofoam pre shaped underlay - made the whole layout a very quick, yet realistic build. I started off with their track planning folder to work out what I needed. I through the slight flexibility of the track was amazing - imaging creating a curved point from a straight one - albeit only a tiny curve without breaking it, but still rather handy! https://www.goldenvalleyhobbies.com/track/track-1/9620-tillig-planning-folder-h0
  6. Step forward a man called Dave....
  7. 'In other words' - well provided they mean something completely different to the Press Release. :-) Perhaps you should just write your own - oh wait you have done...
  8. There is a couple of countries which expect UK companies to add VAT (or local equivalents ) to all orders being shipped to that country. Australia is one - 10%. So the ex-vat price is £166.66, add shipping then add 10% and the price works out correct. It's not shown very clearly perhaps... but I would assume most Australians who buy on a regular basis know Tax is paid at point of order not at point of import. NZ does not - so you see £166.66 plus the shipping price only. It's going to become more widespread - all the EU will be like this from July this year. So any UK company shipping into Europe have to change their systems again to charge the Local VAT element and show it on the checkout page.
  9. I think they reacted - it got leaked this weekend - apparently someone spotted them in the Musuem doing some measuring up and posted about it!
  10. Hi The sound one is here if that's any help: https://support.Hornby.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360016117980-Schools-Class-Steam-Loco-Version-3-LokSound-Manual
  11. Share price seems to be going in the right direction too.
  12. A bit biased on that point - and not strictly true - I think it's been widely reported that Hornby were working on an upgrade of their model. You could equally spin this as Rails stole an existing model from the Hornby range and then cried fowl when the company defended itself.
  13. Depends on your definition of Spare Parts. Hornby have never to my knowledge offered every part of a loco as a spare part. It's always been focused on 'engineering' components that suffer wear and tear during operation. Motors, brushes etc. With over 250 parts being shown clustered around the disassembled loco in last years (?) catalogue, many of which are painted it suspect it's impossible to get close to offering a complete suite of bits.
  14. I think the said they were operating a waiting list once they had hit 3500 orders? Perhaps some people ordered after this point and are still on the waiting list ?
  15. Probably the mold was not at the right temperature - normally when it's just starting to be run. The body does not drop out of the tool cleanly and the slight friction pulls on the outer ends of a long shape... hence the banana shape. Plastic has a memory - once it cools it will try try to retain it's shape when warm, Bit unlucky as once the mold is running at temperature it would be fine.
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