Dave47549

I've been to Glastonbury...... It's a shame Coachman's post has been deleted. I wanted to ask him which book he'd got his fact from that reckoned no lefties were blown to pieces fighting for 'freedom' in WWII etc....

No problem, nothing to apologise for!

After dropping our kid off at White Hart Lane (1-0 to Wolves, made his day!), I wandered off & made my only trip on an artic in the capital. It was immediately obvious to all and sundry that I wasn't a local, as I boarded via the front door, showing my one day travelcard. ... The other dozen or so locals just piled on via the other two doors! I'm not aware of any artic used in the uk that aren't 'pushers'. The chassis is normally modular, with a separate front & rear axle with the engine & drive train attached to the rear. Thus they're normally bodied as 'rigids', artics are built exactly the same, bar for the floppy bit in the middle.

Ermm... These are still in daily use in the region.

361–6 - TUH361-6 (H41/27RD), new in 1960.

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(N.B. My bold etc) This is 'modern image' uk politics. You have to lie effectively to win. That explains an awful lot....

As these elections were on local issues, I can only surmise people like the ongoing financial strangulation of their local councils etc - with all that entails. It makes you so proud, eh? Never mind, as you walk the streets laughing at Abbot for a calculator malfunction, whilst negotiating the jobless & stepping over the homeless, take heart that the last 7 years of unnecessary inhuman suffering in the name of 'economies' have helped shift UKplc's debt.... Oh, hang on....

Correction, three survived to the following year. The last two went in July '98.

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Really? I thought it was an example that outlets could decrease at the same time that Bachmann increase their accounts, not an absolute statement of real life facts. By all means argue, I'm not pursuing it further as it's OT, & I need to go out & be careful not to trip over all these new blue box outlets that have popped up overnight.

That's not the same thing though, is it Phil? Both Statements could be true, & i'd be surprised if that wasn't the case: For instance, say there's 100 model shops, Bachmann have accounts with 40 of them. Then, 15 shops close, but Bachmann doubles its numbers of accounts... To bring it back on topic, my opinion as to why Coopercraft were so popular was the VFM, ready availability, & that you got everything except the paint in the bag (the same with Ratio rolling stock kits). Upgrading them with 3rd party wheels/metal buffers/3 links etc was all part of the fun - if you can easily source the bits nowadays, another stockist/availability issue. Which is how I discovered the supply problem a few years back. I popped into HobbyRail, who usually kept a box of said kits, but where devoid of the wagon kits. Excellent traders that they were, they said they'd reorder. Of course, the box remained depleted. I've got a small stash of unbuilt CC/Ratio wagon kits for my planned sleepy North Wales BLT. In fact I think it's some form of perversion that I've denied myself the simple pleasure of knocking them together yet. I don't really need any more, which of course translates as i'd eagerly try to snap some more up if they ever were resurrected!

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