Looks like you can still get them direct for about £20, not sure if there is p&p on top - http://www.amercom-hobby.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=63&product_id=587&limit=100
For Hippel, the ms&l block on streetview - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5636111,-0.0916604,3a,75y,264.47h,60.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7vkb9U1s4J-MEGnHS1N5YQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
I'd normally settle for just admiring and clicking a button, but that is a properly brilliant, well thought out design. I'm off to buy a hat so I can tip it to you.
I could see a preserved HST set doing good business on private hire. One would've come in very useful for the national Armed Forces day at Cleethorpes this year.
Slightly earlier than the CA period, but still popular might be someone like Charlotte Alington Barnard known as Claribel.
http://louthmuseum.org.uk/people/charlotte_alington_barnard.html
Railway connection - She laid the foundation stone for Louth station in 1847 as the 17 year old daughter of a local worthy, who later defrauded her and ran off to to Belguim with his wealthy second wife
"Today, still wanted by the scrapyard, it survives as a wagon of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find it, maybe you can hire... the 16-tonner"