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    LMS Late 1930s
    Trying to create model railway magazine index - very slow progress.

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  1. Looking at it another way, what happens if you take a modern digital photo (which will be in colour, because almost no one takes black & white originals now), convert it to monochrome and saves as such. What happens if you take that saved image and re-colourise it?
  2. And correctly you never argued with someone spending a fair bit of money!
  3. Which is odd, because for that purpose, they run for a couple of seconds at the most, then are unused for hours. Unlike a model locomotive, where they might be asked to run a few laps of a roundy, hauling a heavy train. So entirely different work cycles. I'm not suggesting that the N30's are unsuitable for model railways, just making an observation.
  4. How many buses is that, doesn't sound that many for todays prices? Hardly unique, lots of trains prove to be too wide for platforms and similar problems.
  5. But it can hardly be in Hornby's interest in having failures in their product range. Testing ought to be done straight off the production line and any faults identified and fixed, BEFORE they go into boxes and sent half way around the world. If Hornby are getting poor QC from their contractors, then Hornby should be looking for other builders for their models. The Hornby Class 31 has had issues with mazac rot for many years and it still recurs in newer models. Perhaps Hornby need to make their factories aware that it isn't acceptable, for their models to disintegrate perhaps just after a standard warranty of 12 months. Might save them money in the long run.
  6. That's probably not a fair question, if the price from Chinese factories is all over the place on dispatch, how can any retailer, answer the question accurately. China doesn't even give a reason, or if they do it's based on lies. Look for various exports from Australia, that the Chinese banned or levied enormous tax charges, without any notice whatsoever.
  7. From running a business, it doesn't matter where the goods are made, what matters is the price the item is sold for (income), against the cost of running the business, including sending it to the customer (expenses). As long as the former is more than the latter, the location of manufacturer, has no consequence to a retailer. There are reasons why it is better for a NATION if more goods are made locally, but retailers, no. Maybe you don't know, but Australia no longer makes cars (except very limited specialist builds), which IMO is a far bigger loss.
  8. Waited a year for some previously offered help, comes on here and in just over 2 days gives up!
  9. A disappointing view, after some good advice.
  10. Did I state that YOU said any such thing? I was making a general statement about others comments, which has occurred several times within this thread. I didn't want to highlight particular statements, but you seem to want to defend yourself! I don't expect the real details will ever make the public domain, why should they? Hattons was a private company and they owe us nothing as regards the gory details. People need to understand that and anyone who takes over a proportion of the business and some of the ideas, needs to remember that for reasons to be careful of, DIDN'T WORK!
  11. Almost certainly BR purchased a relatively new loco for near scrap price. After all what else were Brush going to do with an ex-demonstrator loco, there was hardly a huge market for it.
  12. Yes, it's sheer nonsense to say the Hattons (or anyone else for that matter) dealt with overseas customers, out of the goodness of their hearts, as I have seen many times, within this thread - often to the point of opining that this was the cause of the demise of Hattons. Richard has previously stated that there were many reasons why Hattons had to close, but some trot out the 'blame the overseas buyers' nonsense yet again. The signs of the oncoming demise were obvious, for sometime the ads in magazines etc were diminishing significantly. Certainly the dreaded overseas customers didn't wait for magazines to turn up in newsagents/hobby shop, before buying their specials. The specials would long have expired. If the Trunk system (which I'd never heard of before this thread) had been sending the business broke, then I'm sure Richard (who I've never met in any format) would have cancelled the system long ago, as would any sensible business owner.
  13. Exactly, there were all sorts of obscure locations, not just towns and cities, but sidings and factories, collieries, mines etc. So someone had to know, even if sent elsewhere for remarshalling. No good sending it 50 miles in the wrong direction, for someone it later get the task of finding it and correcting the mistake. Perhaps wasting a day.
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