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In fact didn't the Herr Reichmarshal own a model railway? If so I suspect that he would attract Mr. Wright's ire by being more of a cheque-book modeler.

' Look, Daddy, there's even the hole for the wind-up key!'.

I well-remember talking with an elderly & female relative who had been 'In service.' at the start of and into C20. about the noise of metal rimmed cart & coach wheels on London's cobbled setts. It was quite common, in the more exclusive of London's squares, that when a Lady was confined in expectation of either birth or death for the square to be covered in straw to muffle the vehicles' wheels' noise and thus not disturb Madam during what could be a critical and/or life-giving/threatening time of her life. .

Only in England would this happen!

Indeed there is such a word as 'Resurrectionist,'. . Inhabitants of N. Britain's capital city - aka. the self-styled 'Athens of the North.' - may care to remember Messers Burke & Hare, inter alii! Quite by chance, as one writes, I was looking at >> RMWeb - UK. prototype questions. << and came across a thread entitled: 'Talking manure' ; which I resolved to read further >> www.rmweb.co.uk/community.index.php?/.topic/110328 -talking manure << posting #5. of 16 April 2016. - 23:19.hrs. by Peter 220950. in which he quotes: 'You will, moreover, be pleased not to regard this resurrectionist warning as a low and a greasy attempt ... .'. Chapter IX. - The Bones of old London; Victorian London - Pubs - Social Investigation/Journalism - Unsentimental Journeys; or byways of the modern Babylon. James Greenwood - 1867.. That quote is from the more recent book entitled: 'Dirty old London - the Victorian fight against filth.'; Author: Lee Jackson; Pub'r.: Yale University Press; ISBN.: 9 780300 19205 6.; Price: $12.50. to 15.95..

In fact are there not two grades of 'Loctite.'? One grade is what one might call 'Semi-permanent.' - strong enough for general day-to-day use, but with care the parts can be separated/unbonded; The other grade is 'Fully permanent.' and once made the parts are bonded together permanently and cannot be separated..

As some of you may know on crossing South Australia's boundary from the east one sets one's watch back 30 minutes for the new time-zone. Back in the 1960's - when SA. had a Methodist Premier; there was 6 pm. closing of pubs on week-days and no alcohol on Sundays apart from that allowed to bona fide & out of state arrivals - one pilot on an internal flight made a PA. announcement to the PAX.: 'We are now entering South Australia, all passengers should set their watches back thirty years.'. Reports suggest that that pilot was dismissed by his airline.

Was it not gnl.. N. Buonaparte who said: 'I do not ask if a general is good but how lucky he is.' - and he should know!

I fear lest the above observation might not be 100%. correct. II was att'd. to RAE. F'boro. during some of the times that the two DH. 'Comets.' were being tank-tested there; being on the staff of DH. I had a proprietary interest in what was happening. The culprit was metal-fatigue - a subject u'stood. even less then than it is today - firstly the corners of the windows, although radiused did not have large enough radii to distribute the stresses involved to larger areas of the aeroplanes' skins, IE. the stresses were concentrated in too small areas around the windows' corners; secondly many holes for rivets etc. were punched, not drilled, and they were found to be other point of weakness. To obtain Certs. of Airworthiness from the American auth'ys., commercially a necessity for future sales world-wide, all of the British test-results had to be handed to the American aircraft industry, (on silver platters - as it were.), for their verification. At least the Boeing Engrs. had the grace to allow that those results saved them making several and possibly costly errors.

I remember Papa telling me about the time he crossed the Atlantic Ocean eastwards on an American 'Liberty.' ship and how it flexed it any sort of a sea, (quite frightening.); quite different from the more rigid & riveted British ships. Still - let's remember that in one of Mr. Kaiser's west coast ship-yards the American workers were producing one 'Liberty.' ship every 24 hrs.; and write what one may they became WW2's. main carriers of freight, troops etc. etc. and their prod'n. rate did much to negate the losses caused by the Kriegmarine's U-boats - that's 100%. for sure.

As a matter of interest what would have happened had a class 'P2.', steaming along at let's write 40MPH. and on a straight length of track, broken its Crank-axle? Also - what warning that something was amiss would the driver have had?

How typically British that the lorry-driver was more concerned with the lives of the dogs than that of their handler. One feels that possibly that 'his big German car.' was designed by Herr Ferdinand Porsch - designed of the 'Tiger.' & similar tanks!

Pray pardon the pedantics, but shouldn't the above really read: ' ... , but none was around yesterday. ... . ? 'None.' being a reduction of 'Not one.'.

Now - would you be thinking of Lindsey? Interesting that only Lincs. & Yorks. had 'Ridings.', ( a corruption of 'Thirdings.'), - possibly the olde & Danish influences?

Napier engines were sleeve-valved, were they not?

Possibly, sir, you're thinking of Mr. Stroudley's 'Improved Locomotive Green.'? Y'day., and quite coincidentally, my errant mind was running along a similar track - thus I availed of search engine Google! for something more definitive. Reportedly Stroudley used a similar shade of green also known as 'Scotch green.' in his previous employment in N. Britain afore coming south to Brighton. It has been suggested that possibly Stroudley suffered from some form of colour-blindness?

The 'Jeweler's Position.' - clearly not related to the possibly better known 'Missionary position.'!

But don't both of them feature models?

Instead of DC. or DCC. why not investigate the properties of Radio-control? The American periodical 'Model Railroads.' for 2016. - ISBN 09281 01275 7.- has an enlightening article on Radio control and Battery packs, using components available in GB.., too! The name off the supplier is: DEL TANG Receivers & Throttles. - >> www.deltang.co.uk << Use Del Tang Tx22 controller which has 'Selecta.' loco. selector switch; use Rx6x Receivers. No worries about wiring up tracks, polarities, micro-switches etc. etc.; the only wiring being to energise turn-outs' motors, signals and suchlike. Each loco. carries its own Battery Pack, from which some three hours' running should be obtainable before needing to be recharged, and Receiver. The article was for On3o., aka. On2 1/2.,. (1:48 scale running on 30". gauge tracks.),. So possibly with a scale On3o. loco. there's more space for the Receiver & Bty. pack than there might be in scale OO.? But 'Where there's a will there's a way.'. Usual disclaimer; E&OE..

Did not Terry Wogan, as he then was, in his daily & morning programme refer to that part of London as 'Penge, les deux eglises.'?

Sigh.

Possibly easier to write than to do - especially if one is living at home. where the correct info. should be more easily obtainable. Sure - photos. are all very well, but even coloured photos. do not render colours accurately all of the time - to take but one example. I know that one can quote "Rule One.", and that "There's a prototype for everything.", but with the desire for authenticity the eagle-eyed will soon see errors: for example incorrect number of spokes in the coupled wheels; such a type of buffer is incorrect for the period being modeled; milk-tankers were never marshaled as you have done, your prototype railway never used that type of chair for that time-period - and so the list continues. I suppose that the answer is to become a member of one of the many Societies that have sprung-up to assist neophyte modelers and those wishing to make a representation of some desired area of Britain's green and pleasant land. I do realize that I read like Mr. Faintheart to many of you, but it is a great commitment in both time and money to make what might pass for even a fair representation of a chosen location; and finally on one's departure from this World what might happen to one's efforts? Into the skip for many of us, I fear.

When I consider all that has to be known/understood before modelling even a small scene I shudder mentally: Geology, Geography, History and time-period just for starters so as to set the scene. Then there is the railway with all that are associated with it - correct classes of locos. and their numbers; correct type of carriages and how they would be arranged; then freight and how such trains are marshaled. Then - and I haven't exhausted the list - there are the mysteries, (to me, at least.), of signalling and of movement-control; and not forgetting DC. -v-. DCC., (or even Radio-control.),! I'm not writing that the list is endless - but it can and does become rather daunting, especially as real & helpful hands-on knowledge become scarcer by the day - thanks to Olde Father Time. Does it become a matter of balance between research and just plunging in, having a go and d*mning the consequences?

In general aren't road vehicles' front wheels toed IN?