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I have said it before but it is always worth saying again; we are incredibly grateful for the knowledge and assistance that people give us on RMWeb and elsewhere to help us improve what we make. We are all modellers too and want to be able to sell things that we would want to purchase.

Drawing 46170 (fitted brakes) confirms the distance between the vac cylinder centre and the V hanger to be 18", so I am guessing it was also 18" on the earlier wagons with the offset V, but with the vac cylinder being mounted closer to the centre of the wagon. @Dunsignalling yes I imagine that having a single size of push rods etc. to keep in stock that would work for both fitted and unfitted wagons would have been appealing.

Bear in mind that the RTUK site only shows what's in stock or available to pre-order at the moment. There may still be stock available via retailers.

This is a real noodle-baker. I'll try and summarise what we have. John Lewis wrote an article in Great Western Journal in 2007 on GW 16ft Vans, which had this in a section on DC.III brakes: This matches with what we've been looking at, as there are several preserved V14s where the V is in the centre of the vehicle: 101720 at Didcot and 101961/103592 at the SVR are examples of this. In this photo it is below the central body support stanchion (which is shown as being dead-centre on drawing 78302). This is mid-restoration and hasn't had the vac cylinder refitted yet, it is down as a V14. This tallies with some of the works drawings we have for underframes where both the unfitted and fitted versions have the V marked as 'centre line of vehicle'. Here is a comparison to show just how offset the V was. Note that in these two pics, the van with the offset V has the slim buffers too. Unsure if there may have been a changeover year we can pin this down to, any ideas?

The Toad/Loriot etc had to be made at about the same time to make sure they all coincided with the Titfield sets 😀

We are reading them, and we are looking in to it.

Hello Gopher, if these are displaying new issues please drop us a line via the warranty form - our repairs dept. can pick it up in the new year. Hello Trevor, I checked with the Staplehurst team and the system is showing that all the 16xx enquiries have been replied to, did it go to junk mail? If there is no sign of it, please could you drop us a line again via the website?

Hello Trevor, sorry to hear this. Would you be able to let me know which date you sent in the enquiry?

We are currently asking overseas buyers to hold off on sending them back. Apologies for the wait, we understand it is frustrating. I believe (although Andy may correct me) that the PCBs are in transit from China to the UK.