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I would never wish to defend the Telegraph in a million years but the article does mention Brexit. However to me the more salient point was the age of Christine Hatton, now 61. It would have been coming to the time when she and her husband would be looking to pass the business to the next generation; is there one and, if so, are they interested? It happens to a lot of family businesses, after a couple of generations it has either been divided up into small shareholdings and the shareholders disagree on a way forward or the third or fourth generation are just not interested. With retail the way it is, the previous option of selling the business probably doesn't exist anymore.

Have you watched the recent McKinley video where he highlights a major problem they have discovered with Tortoise points motor switching?

What about the ultimate Hall and Modified Hall? Loads of variations, seems right up Accurascale's street. But then there is the Saint and Hawksworth County, must stop dreaming!

The family went on holiday to North Wales in the summer of 1953. We went by train from Paddington to Harlech, surely the Cambrian Coast Express so probably a Manor; came home the same route a fortnight later. Sad to say, at the age of 5, all I remember was that it was a steam train, probably slept a lot of the journey!

Not much from the Far East goes to East Midlands, mostly parcels from Europe plus one or two from the USA.

I had completely forgotten about the regular all cargo flights into Stansted, from Guangzhou and Shanghai with China Southern Cago.

To those you can add:- Qingdao (TAO) Changsha (CSX) Chongqing (CKG) Shenzhen (SZX) and of course Hong Kong. These are just today's flights, tomorrow we have Chengdu (TFU) and I'm pretty sure Tianjin gets direct flights too. If they are in containers, then they may come on the Cathay Pacific cargo flight out of Hong Kong, I think that runs once or twice a week. However an oddball 747 Freighter arrived at Heathrow on Monday from Jinan [via Almaty] and another arrived from Hong Kong [via DWC] today; not speculating, just observing. Do we know where the "Manor Factory" is, I doubt it?

What's the digital sound like on these? Presumably they'll use the same file and configuration as on the earlier batches.

Thinking of using these, I have a Lenz system. Was going to use Digikeijs but with their bankrupcy and reading that Yamorc are more modern, can I use the combination Lenz/YD8116/MP1? Thanks

Or Testors Dullcote. Shake the can very well and spray outside, or at least in a very well ventilated space.

Does anyone know whether KR Models interact with these fora like Accurascale/Rapido or stand aloof?

* well it was designed to fly ultra low over the sea (Royal Navy), when the RAF got them they found that doing low, low-flying over land caused the wings to break off.

It could made available a few days before the weekend, the exhibition guide is almost certainly mastered as a PDF for the printer so could be put online for advance ticket holders; what's to lose, they get a free guide on arrival anyway. Maybe even more incentive to book in advance.

Both GEC and ICI were driven by charismatic leaders, Arnold Weinstock and John Harvey-Jones. They became amongst the largest and prestigious UK companies. When they retired, short-term focused "get rich quick" leaders took over, the rest, sadly, is history. Almost a history of the UK over the last 40-50 years.

What Mike the Stationmaster didn't mention in his post was that, as well as the floor plan of the Exhibition, the Basingstoke A4 sheet also had a QR code. Open the QR code reader on your phone and hey presto you had a full show guide, photos, description etc.; nothing to lose, no extra cost, no waste paper! May not suit all, I'm well past retirement age, but we are in 2023 now.