Golden Fleece 30

Does anyone have a list or catalogue of all 00 Exley's made? It is so I know what to look for myself as a couple of recent adverts for Exleys have been either non Exley or a couple have been advertised as 12 wheel Buffet cars but to me I thought all the 12 wheelers were on the longer 69' Restaurant or sleeper cars. These two both do not look right and are only 57'/59' vehicles as they are stood on top of other standard coaches.

Here are 3 SR and 3 GWR coaches. The full brake for both has the same window pressings but the roof of the SR is in Southern style with the shallow arc rainstrip. The SR ones will need a little touching up but that is to be expected as they look well used and were quite grubby when I received them a couple of days ago.

Until this week when I found this site I did not know much about Exleys apart from what I saw with the ones I had. Until yesterday all the others had a mixture of different types of whitemetal bogies and an assortment of wheels. The 12 wheeler did not have any bogies and I bought some of Ebay and was disappointed to find they seemed short in length hence putting the Hornby ones on as in the photo. Was that Peter Denny in Long Eaton you bought from? One of yesterdays collection had £2 on the box so quite a lot later although it did include postage. I have no idea what Anbrico parts look like so don't know if any of there parts were fitted. I would have liked WR and not GWR but have never seen any at anytime and only one other Blood and Custard but that was too dear in my opinionas I will not pay over £30.

I have read with interest this section on Exley coaches as I am a great Exley fan. I was surprised to read that the BR maroon coaches were relativly uncommon, my first set of 7 were BR maroon bought second hand in 1968. I had gone for a job interview and ended up with my mother taking me to the managers house that night to buy these. Until about 5 years ago that was all I had then I have bought a few of Ebay including another 4 BR maroon ones. I aslo managed a Royal Mail, a few GWR main line, Engineers saloon and 12 wheeler in Blood and Custard as per photo. In the last few months I was lucky to win 4 LMS suburbans and a set of 6 SR green vehicles. What has pleased me is after winning a new and unused WR coach a few days ago and I went to collect it, I asked if there was anything else and was told 18 more all new and unused in original boxes. Some of these had never even had the tissue paper opened. With all these there is a wide range of construction methods as previously mentioned. I have to say I have (and in the process) of fitting modern Bachmann bogies as these are all free running, Even the new 18 with plastic bogies are not as good at running as metal wheeled with pin point bearings are. I will add other vehicles later.