bigherb

Your close, it states 4.1 meters/13 feet, which a standard 4 meter truck should fit under. But 13 feet is 3.9 meters which a 4 meter truck obviously doesn't.

Not in all cases.

It did use a pretty good cast metal representation of the bogie. Yes it was a very good model for the time. Tri-angs toolmakers could make some very fine and crisp mouldings. Mines got replacement wheels.

Makes a change from the Rails fanboys giving Hornby a kicking.

They weren't that brilliant, with raised door outlines, heavy screw heads, rubber corridor connectors which all mine rotted away. Always looked a bit short in body depth to me. The Hornby version is far superior.

That is true of all manufactures. Even Bachmann have made a few pups, even they had a few goes at getting the 7 plank right.

Two mirrors where only a requirement for new cars from Aug 78

Merchant Navy was one of them.

Looks like a 560 ohm to me.

It looks like a bodge, there is a resistor fitted to mine.

That was the case when RG4s came out against the X04 and motors of the time, but iron cored motors have vastly improved and the best of them can surpass coreless motors. Oxfords Janus without cogging.

Low power consumption, good if you are using batteries, not really relevant for model railways with mostly powered by mains transformers. Low inertial, great for drones etc where you want quick response from the motor. Locomotives need the opposite high inertia to stop jerking, why flywheels are fitted to increase inertia. Small size might handy for N gauge. But Hornby have produced some excellent running dimunitive Locomotives Peckett, Rushton, Sentinal, Rocket with conventional motors. So for model locomotives not really any benefit.

Are we sure it is fitted with a coreless motor? Or is just forum myth.

Hornby make the original size 12.6mm drop in wheelsets for the Triang/Hornby pinpoint axle bogies. https://www.hattons.co.uk/7285/hornby_r8096_12_6mm_metal_disc_wheels_on_axles_10_axles_/stockdetail.aspx

My payment went through alright.

You can phone the order through.

That's the point, if it is coreless it is not effected by an AMR controller.

Look what you made me do I had to find out which motor mine has single flywheel jobbie, not sure if it coreless though. Sorry about the quality had to use the phone camera. But if it is it exceptionally good using an AMR feedback controller.

Where does it say skew wound?

The buffer are represented as recessed. Just not the nicest way.

It is when compared to the design clever Bachmann C class @ £160 discounted.

I bought a ROD version off him for £52. Looks like a Dean goods to me. No idea which motor it has in it but it runs superbly on both normal and feedback controllers right down to a creep.

I usually just replace them with the brass ones available from Peters Spares ect. The silver cast ones regularly slip on the shaft.

For model around £50, the answer is yes.

The Hornby Limby power bogie might be the better option, runs exceptional well, and they made one for the Lima 101.