RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted January 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2016 What to we make of this current Ebay item? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WHITE-METAL-KIT-BUILT-BOGIE-CHLORINE-TANK-WAGON-BODY-/351617206943?hash=item51de04ca9f:g:aY4AAOSwo3pWhDkf Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D51 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 This is an Acro / Nucro product of the 1950s. It is made up of white metal castings with, I think, a length of wood dowel for the tank. It would have been made with sprung Nucro bogies and was quite realistic for its day. The quality of the white metal was such that it was very easily broken. Frank Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted January 6, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2016 This is an Acro / Nucro product of the 1950s. It is made up of white metal castings with, I think, a length of wood dowel for the tank. It would have been made with sprung Nucro bogies and was quite realistic for its day. The quality of the white metal was such that it was very easily broken. Frank Frank, Thanks for that - a little more knowledge for the mental archive ! Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 This is an Acro / Nucro product of the 1950s. It is made up of white metal castings with, I think, a length of wood dowel for the tank. It would have been made with sprung Nucro bogies and was quite realistic for its day. The quality of the white metal was such that it was very easily broken. Frank Here's an original advert from MRN 1954. Inflation has obviously occurred in the intervening years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 15/9 ? In 1954? That must have almost been half a weeks wages for a manual labourer. And we complain about today's prices? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted January 7, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2016 Here's an original advert from MRN 1954. Nucro Bogie Tank Feb54.jpg Inflation has obviously occurred in the intervening years! Very nicely detailed for the 1950s - and all parts available as spares !! Not every aspect has improved since then !! Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 15/9 ? In 1954? That must have almost been half a weeks wages for a manual labourer. And we complain about today's prices? According to Historic Inflation Calculator = £15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I spotted that item and was considering a bid, but thought better of it, seeing the bogies are missing.* The correct type are quite hard to source these days. I do have a set of Nucro plate bogies (currently under a MACAW). These are white metal, sprung with an inside bearing unit. As a price reference, it was slightly more than a Dublo Stanier coach (which cost 14/11d IIRC), but considerably less than a Hamblings or Exley coach. A Peco Wonderful wagon kit was 7/6d. * and SWMBO would not have been amused seeing what I've spent on trains of late...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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