8' Fox bogies

[Jim Martin]

I'm considering a 3mm project, building a couple of carriages, and I was wondering where, or even if, I could obtain 8-foot wheelbase Fox bogies and wheels. 3SMR do a white metal Southern 8' bogie which might be adapted, but I really want something without a tie bar. Any ideas?

 

Jim

[Red Devil]

10 hours ago, Jim Martin said:

I'm considering a 3mm project, building a couple of carriages, and I was wondering where, or even if, I could obtain 8-foot wheelbase Fox bogies and wheels. 3SMR do a white metal Southern 8' bogie which might be adapted, but I really want something without a tie bar. Any ideas?

 

Jim

3mm Society list these not certain if it's exactly what you're after.

 

R001C Fox’s Patent Lightweight Pressed
Steel 8ft Coach Bogie LSWR, LBSCR,
GCR, GNoSR, H&BR, GER, HR,
CR,G&SWR 3.40
RM002 Fox’s Patent Heavyweight Pressed
Steel 8 ft. Coach Bogie SECR, LBSCR,
GNR, ECJS, NER, NBR, LYR,Barry.
Similar to some MR, M&NBJS &
M&GSWJS 3.40

[Jim Martin]

46 minutes ago, Red Devil said:

3mm Society list these not certain if it's exactly what you're after.

 

R001C Fox’s Patent Lightweight Pressed
Steel 8ft Coach Bogie LSWR, LBSCR,
GCR, GNoSR, H&BR, GER, HR,
CR,G&SWR 3.40
RM002 Fox’s Patent Heavyweight Pressed
Steel 8 ft. Coach Bogie SECR, LBSCR,
GNR, ECJS, NER, NBR, LYR,Barry.
Similar to some MR, M&NBJS &
M&GSWJS 3.40

Thanks! I could have sworn that I'd checked the Society website, but evidently I didn't  (or else I made a very poor job of it). Maybe I'm confusing it with the 3SMR site, which I definitely looked at. In my defence, I was doing it on my phone,  which is rarely a good way of viewing lengthy pdfs.

 

I'm interested in an NER prototype, and the heavyweight bogie with the tiebar looks like it'll be just the job (in my OP I said that I didn't want the tiebar, but I've just looked at a photo of the prototype and it actually does have them).

 

Jim