Ryan Mccarthy

I haven't found any mention on this forum of these three enjoyable videos that can be viewed on the following links:

I've often wondered why some people do so well in this business whilst others struggle. Rails of Sheffield was my local as a child back in the eighties, you could barely have swung the proverbial cat in it. There was a spotty young John Barber telling his father, (who had started the shop as a small retirement project), of all his big plans for the business. His dad looked on bemused. Fast forward twenty years and I've got a student job there, I've lost count of the number of sports cars John has turned up in and he's just shown me his black Amex card, which is usually only given to premier league football players. I seem to pick my moment when visiting model railway shops as back in the nineties I found an elderly Mr. Hatton in his dingy store in Smithdown Road, Liverpool, (the atmosphere was not improved by every surface being painted black) similarly being accosted by his son with "great plans for the future", and as they say: "the rest is history". Both businesses seem to have succeeded by saturating the model railway magazines with advertising and having friends and relations who were willing to work hard in the early years for little recompense. The main problem of having stock to sell was usually resolved with "just in time delivery" for mail order customers. It all sounds easy enough, any takers?

A quite shocking video from A & H Models, Brackley, showing his profit margin on a typical locomotive sale (topic starts at 3 minutes).