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I see Hornby's done a U-turn on Playtrains already. I wonder if that was because Mike got on the blower to Margate.... :-) I wonder what Mr Ashley thinks of TT120?

Hornby's flip-flops on Playtrains have not improved my confidence in the company to make the right decisions on TT:120.

But to realise that gain, he has to sell the shares at that price. That's a lot of shares to get rid of without other players noticing. And once they notice that a large shareholder is selling shares, then the price drops again. In fact, it might well drop below what he paid for them, as such a sudden change of mind would raise suspicions that once he'd bought the shares, he'd found out something negative about Hornby.

How?

You did give a good summary of China's economic problem, but your argument against my suggestion that Hornby doesn't have more bargaining power was bobbins. Further, you didn't really address the specific issue of why Hornby didn't produce a wider variety of models sooner. I think it is fair to ask the question again: answering, or even thinking about an answer improves our understanding of how Hornby works. And yes, I don't have any TT:120. I am still sceptical about Hornby's ability to make TT:120 successful. I'll commit when I'm confident Hornby has got it right. I want Hornby to succeed with TT:120 because I model metre gauge in 4mm. The more TT modellers and manufacturers, the better.

Not really. It's the usual scepticism about Hornby's abilities to make TT a success.

This thread runs on for nearly three hundred pages. Similar questions are going to be asked again and again as few people really want to read the thread from the beginning and make notes. Searching for information can be difficult in such messy text, as you often get lots of irrelevant results. Perhaps AI searching will make things easier. And what's wrong with asking the question again or making the point again? Things change. New people join in with fresh information or ideas. I still think AY Mod's point from January last year is valid. We don't seem to have a clear answer. The point wouldn't really matter if Hornby had followed up with lots of other rolling stock quickly. But after a year or so, it still does.

There's always Finnish baseball. It was an Olympic sport (just once, when the Olympics were, coincidentally, in Helsinki).

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I think he's actually British, and not Singaporean. He just lives in Singapore, so therefore is our Singapore correspondent.

How long before the train set crowd lose interest in TT120 because Hornby hasn't launched much?

Well, the Financial Times is doing its bit to accentuate the positive here, I think https://www.ft.com/content/81ad6468-b012-4904-b9de-6017d6619110

China's youth unemployment (16-24) in cities hit a record of 21% last year. Then the authorities decided that the method of measuring that joblessness was wrong, and so they stopped publishing the statistics. About six months later they started to publish them again, and amazingly, the proportion dropped to something like 11%.

Does anyone know, please, of Malaysian pacific being refurbished? Might be in Melbourne.

How about: you don't have to do the briefing repeatedly, but to prove you still remember what you were told the first time, they make you take a short test instead.

But it's not going to be just you, is it? Lots of people will probably say they should be exempted too. Of course, you are a person with commonsense. But how does the RAAF know that? Far easier just to keep giving the briefings. Arses are covered.

The content and aims of most of these briefing and training sessions do seem like commonsense much of the time. But, as has been noted on the internet before, a lot of people do seem to lack common sense. There's no easy test for who's got commonsense or not, and whether they have the right sort of commonsense for this day and age, and so it's better to treat everyone as if they don't have commonsense.

They're airbases. They will have thousands of visits from people like you a year. Rather than spend ages trying to work out who's going to go near a runway, and who isn't, it's much simpler and sensible to treat everyone as if they are at some point.

They managed it. But a lot of people were injured unnecessarily. Perhaps that's acceptable, or even necessary, in a time of a war. Diversity/inclusion? Plenty of wartime propaganda to encourage men to accept women in factories. and for women to accept they could do men's work. Plenty of talk about the family of the Empire, people of all races and classes, fighting together and pulling together against Hitler and Tojo. (it's not a good idea to racially abuse a British West Indian who'd volunteered to defend the Mother Country if you want him to lay down his life for Britain -- mind you there was plenty of racist propaganda to make sure everyone hated the Japanese) Plenty of training films shown to US soldiers, for example, about what Britain would like when they got there ... how culture was different and how to avoid misunderstandings (eg "fags"). Information security and governance? Loose lips sink ships. And volunteers who don't understand why you shouldn't share passwords may well let hackers in to cause all sorts of trouble. As for mandatory courses? Well, a great way for management to protect itself against volunteers who screw up. If they've been sent on a course, and they still act the wrong way and get the organisation into trouble, then the managers have covered their arses.

The last king of France was Louis Philippe I. He abdicated in 1848, and died in exile in the UK two years later. He was not beheaded. The last monarch of France was Emperor Napoleon III. He died in exile in the UK in 1873 after complications from surgery to remove gallstones. The only king of France to be beheaded was Louis XVI, in 1793.

Surely China's economic slowdown works in Hornby's favour. Industry is slowing down. Demand in general for Chinese exports is down. The prices manufacturers can get for their products have been falling for eighteen months or so. Consumer inflation is negarive ... in other words, deflation, so Beijing is trying to stimulate the economy and keep interest rates low: that means the currency is weak. That all gives Hornby a lot more bargaining power.

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