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4 hours ago, ERIC ALLTORQUE said:

 All the big capital battleships met their end by airpower and an aircraft is peanuts compared to the cost of a capital ship.

Not true.  Royal Oak and Barham were sunk by U boats, Hood, Scharnhorst and Bismarck by other battleships (though the latter had been incapacitated by aircraft).  Queen Elizabeth and Valiant were fortunate to be moored in shallow water when subjected to underwater attack.

Aircraft carriers were - and are - just as vulnerable to air attack as surface ships.  Battleships became obsolete because the range of their main armament (guns) was a fraction of that of the aircraft carrier (aircraft).

1 hour ago, ikcdab said:

file it to the exact width and get a square edge 

that does assume you can file square!

Fortunately, I was never faced with the challenge of filing a 1" cube.  

And you get paid for that?

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

I've never suffered from rust on axles

Sounds rather like CPO Pertwee's "twinge in screws".

5 hours ago, Barry O said:

You obviously have never met the submarine builders of Barrow.. they get quite loud if someone says something they disagree with... generally in the words "PICK YER WINDA!"

 

Baz

If it came to fisticuffs, would they floor-plate you?

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

A submarine is not A

SHIP in the submarine service.. its a BOAT..

 

Baz

I know - but it was a submariner who told me of the two types!

18 minutes ago, Flying Pig said:

 

It's hard to see a situation in which Britain remained at war with Germany and the conduit from US production capacity remained open as anything other than a British and later Allied victory, regardless of who shot down more aircraft.

 

An interesting viewpoint, strategically, though I think most people at the time - including Goering? - would have taken a tactical perspective. 

I think I agree that Brits would have been aware that the immediate threat of invasion had been defeated. Was there a widespread appreciation of the extent to which US production would contribute to eventual victory? 

Whilst Churchill believed this and worked hard to achieve US support, the Battle of the Atlantic determined how valuable this output was. 

Interestingly, I think all posters ascribe to the opinion that the BoB was a British victory.  Eric "Winkle" Brown records that, in his meeting with Goering, he asked who won the BoB.  Goering replied that it was a draw, citing that British losses in the latter part of the battle were similar to German losses, and that the battle ended when Hitler cancelled Sea Lion and started planning for the Russian campaign.  I don't think I've ever seen discussion of this view.

Won't they be used for power projection?  The political message of a Chinese carrier task group visiting South American, African and European waters will be immense.

It would seem possible to pre-pay an emission charge but the status of car parking seems confused.  It would seem an operator has been chosen and charges are to be introduced but that it remains FOC for the moment.  Have I got this right?

Are they part of the wagon or the  vertical(ish) lengths of the restraining webbing?

As a certain branch of the RN has long believed - there are two types of ship. 

Submarines, and targets.

11 hours ago, MRDBLUE17 said:

Again a good spread from Bachmann so hopefully something of interest for everyone.

 

cheers

Mark

Not for kettle fans!

Apart from buildings and the 9F, there is little for the steam-age modeller, particularly pre-nationalisation.  Have Bachmann decided to leave this market to others?

6 hours ago, Ken.W said:

 

And all that's before we come to railway docks and ships

and shipping, hotels, warehousing and Railway Air Services.

56 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

Probably because it comes from a different budget. New build against repair.

I would have thought both would have come from the levelling up fund!

I would recommend "GWR Goods Services An Introduction" by Tony Atkins and David Hyde to anyone interested in finding out more about goods train operation.  Whilst it is obviously about the GW, the principles involved would have been used on other major systems.  The complexity of the services provided, and the thousands of staff involved, I found really eye-opening.  Last week I bought a book from OPC and the parcel included their summer 2022 brochure, which offered this volume and volumes 2A and 2B for £20, a  real bargain if still available.  Further volumes deal with topics such as collection and delivery services and docks.

I have also just finished reading two volumes on the operation of bus services by the railway companies up until 1932 and have been struck by the extent to which the railways, and the GWR in particular, provided an integrated transport system of the type no longer existing in the UK.

Spiral to the fiddle yard in the sky?

My last employment was with a small UK subsidiary of a large US company.  My colleague and I found amusement in some of the names of our US colleagues, the best of which was "Randy Spangle". 

We had to explain that to our US MD!

Everton FC?

7 hours ago, 62613 said:

Something a bit stronger than that, surely?

Insipid, but strong (or used to be) - known in some parts as "wifebeater".

Many years ago, I picked up a rebuilt LNER Claud Hamilton at a toyfair.  Quite a decent attempt using a cut-down B12 body on the L1 chassis.  It was a steady performer but is now relegated to a cupboard by the modern Hornby model.

For a sub-class of 2 locos only, this thread has generated a lot of traffic!