Stanley Melrose

It would seem that Boeing have tried to disprove that recently . . .

There's a UK company working on sodium ion batteries - https://faradion.co.uk/

It's an additional trailer for the L&Y Railmotors

Many thanks! That copy will now be perused with great intensity. Stan

May I interrupt this thread with a couple of questions on a particular type of Midland Railway carriage? Would the (circular) truss rods on a Midland Railway Bain 54' Clerestory Carriage be fastened to the outside of the solebar at each end (i.e over the bogies) or tucked inside the solebars and were the queen posts attached to the bottom of the solebars? I've searched loads of books and looked at many photographs but a definitive answer has so far eluded me. I did a search on RMWeb to find ths thread and thought someone conributing to it might just put me out of my misery with the correc answer. Thanks in anticiation . . . Stan

At least one of the Brassmasters team is an accountant - I suspect he knows how to ensure that stocking unprofitable and/or slow-moving items do NOT damage the business so that it remains in good financial health.

My Dad took me to Smithdown Road to swap my Trix Twin for a Graham Farish Prairie and some Formway track. That must have been around 1952 or 1953. We were served by Mr Hatton and I can see him stil in my mind's eye. I've not been a regular customer but have bought from them from time to time with complete satisfaction over the years. Very sad and I, too, hope all involved come out of it well. Stan

All I'll offer (tho' there are probably sme who are bound to disagree) is don't go near anything from the VW stable. My experience of the VW software requires me to advise anyone who is inerested in a BEV to look elsewhere. My 4 year lease expires in September and I will certainly never consider a VW (or any of their other ranges) in future. You have been warned! Stan

Joining Ford in 1965 I was able in late Summer 1966 to move my Halewood built Anglia 107E from a Friday afternoon to earlier in the week. As was customary in those days, I tried to run it in to bed down the rough spots in the engine. To no avail; on my first trip up north to visit my parents, the big ends ran so it needed a replacement engine within the first few weeks of getting it. It wasn't all bad news, however, because I had offered a lift to a young lady whom I had just met and who also wanted to visit her family in Liverpool for a weekend. We eventually made it to Liverpool but had to return south by train on the Sunday. On the train south I asked her to have dinner with me and she accepted. 6 weeks later we were engaged and in 1967 we married. In due course we had 4 children but tragically she died aged 50 in 1994. I re-married and my second marriage has now lasted onger than the first. As this is a topic for smiles, thnk of me and how my life has had its ups and downs but I can still smile. So can all of of you! So do it . . . Have a smile on me.

A Double Diamond works wonders, works wonders, works wonders. A Double Diamnd works wonders - so drink one today. . . I bet that triggers earworms in some elderly listers.

Ah the days of Mateus Rose, Hirondelle (use Google translate if your French isn't up to it) and Spanish Burgundy . . . And Watney's Red Barrel. of course!

Completely off topic as I can't help with the railway matters but my family origins were in Pocklington over 400 years ago. Perhaps you can find gravestones that confrm this? Elizabeth Catton - Christening 5th April 1616.pdf

Get well soon, Martin!

Surely the use of rectangular "holes" is to avoid the possibility of the chairs being inserted at an angle that would make the whole concept of "gauge-free" track building and ease of assembly a lottery?

My enjoyment is listening to Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers 1923-27 recordings. I bought an LP of these recordings in Shaftesbury Avenue in October 1962 (my first week at London Uni). They were only 40 years old back then and I now have digitally re-mastered copies in various formats collected in the years since, along with practically everything I have been able to find recorded by Mister Jelly. His Dead Man Blues will be played at my funeral. Perhaps of more interest to this list is that, in the same week, the Beatles were on Parade of the Pops at the Playhouse Theatre under Charing Cross Station. A gang of us went to hear and see them. I still recall the looks on the faces of the session musicians sitting on the stage behind the Beatles. They were incredulous to say the least, if not downright scornful . . . Incidentally, the group preceding the Beatles at the top of the hit Parade was the Temperance Seven featuring Whispering Paul McDowell (sp?) Stan