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Both the actual tower as well as the engineers drawings . Essentially a PL1 D30 design with 6 foot top (pyramid) instead of the usual 4 foot .
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The prototype for the third pylon is located just behind the Hornby Margate factory, 33kV route at Westwood and features feeders to the substation opposite.
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The world of Triang covered such an extensive variety of products which have fascinated me since childhood. Due to space and storage I built a small compact diorama to capture those wonderful catalogue images , even the scenic scatter materials are Triang/Hornby while several of the Model-Land buildings are original preproduction samples . Rovex were certainly responsible for enlightening the minds of countless children up and down the land .
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I know a couple of people who work in the industry, they supplied the engineers drawings and blueprints .
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
Pylon King replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
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Minix (and other) car improvements
Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
The shops and townhouses have a real charm about them , still very sought after to this day they fetch a premium made or unmade . -
Yes , it originally took the conductors down from 4 to 2 just before the junction .
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Hope one day you can recover it , those buildings are getting harder to find in good condition. Triang only produced relatively few of each kit . -
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Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
Do you still have that model ? -
Minix (and other) car improvements
Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
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Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
The ladder trailer only made a very brief appearance in the 1972 Triang Hornby catalogue, blink and you’d miss it . As far as I’m aware the white base trailers (caravan, ladder and boat ) were exported to the US . -
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Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
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Minix (and other) car improvements
Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
Not too sure on paving choices available back then , Triang/Hornby catalogues at the time used their own range of scatter materials which were a little basic but certainly added a unique character/charm to those scenes . The ballast grey they used was an unusual colour , appeared to resembled crushed biscuits . I managed to take a few more ‘Triang Town’ photos over the Christmas period . -
I could be wrong but there are possibly three to four Blaw Knox D90’s along the Streatley Hill to Bramley route .
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Minix (and other) car improvements
Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
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Minix (and other) car improvements
Pylon King replied to quicksilvercoaches's topic in Road Vehicles
Always loved the Minix range ever since I was six years old . I recently built a diorama incorporating several pre release/preproduction sample Model-Land buildings , Triang-Hornby scatter materials, Britains Trees , Model-Land figures to capture how the Minix and Model-Land ranges were promoted during the 1960’s and early 70’s. -
Triang Model-Land buildings and Minix vehicles.
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The high street scene is one that really stands out in TH Book of Trains . I still have the original studio master colour transparency for this wonderful scene in my archive . -
Triang Model-Land buildings and Minix vehicles.
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Triang Model-Land buildings and Minix vehicles.
Pylon King replied to Pylon King's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
The Minic Motorways accessories were regularly featured with the Model-Land range . Photo - 1966 Triang/Hornby catalogue.