Hello Kevinlms,
Thank you so very much for your reply, It's almost as though you've seen it already as the model is indeed finished in grey primer! The locomotive is made from brass sheet and is fitted with Romford wheels - Bullhead rail coupling rods, the tender unit is constructed from tinplate (soldered up with Bakers Fluid judging by the corrosion under the paint!) and fitted with Jackson wheels. There are no electrical pick-ups - but what looks like a later K's type motor with a plastic gear carrier/gearbox arrangement fitted to the chassis. It's a bit late to leave it as is, as I've been cleaning up the soldering here and there, and have removed the whitemetal axlebox castings from one side of the tender chassis frame in order to refix back in place in a better alignment. I am also in the process of remaking the tender from scratch in tinplate as the existing body is overscale in some areas ( Yeh, that's me being over critical and a perfectionist ) but taken as a whole it's fine . Now, if this is the late Len's work, I will have to consider what to do next and possibly stop "improving" but finish it. But I do like the look of the completed locomotive - and I may build a new one from scratch. I'll take a photograph of the Locomotive as is - and see what you think about it's possible provononse.
Sorry, if you all thought that you were not going to get any acknowledgement or reply, BT line/broadband problems have delayed getting back on line - So, apologies to all and many thanks for your collective interest.
Thanks once again for the steer to the Railway Modeller July 1991, and January 1992, I'll definitely have to try to source copies!
Thank you, also Wickham Green, Nick Holliday for the H Class reference and Gordon A for the photo request (I'll do my best to bet something online).
Best regards,
Roy