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  1. Looking at it another way, what happens if you take a modern digital photo (which will be in colour, because almost no one takes black & white originals now), convert it to monochrome and saves as such. What happens if you take that saved image and re-colourise it?
  2. And correctly you never argued with someone spending a fair bit of money!
  3. Which is odd, because for that purpose, they run for a couple of seconds at the most, then are unused for hours. Unlike a model locomotive, where they might be asked to run a few laps of a roundy, hauling a heavy train. So entirely different work cycles. I'm not suggesting that the N30's are unsuitable for model railways, just making an observation.
  4. How many buses is that, doesn't sound that many for todays prices? Hardly unique, lots of trains prove to be too wide for platforms and similar problems.
  5. But it can hardly be in Hornby's interest in having failures in their product range. Testing ought to be done straight off the production line and any faults identified and fixed, BEFORE they go into boxes and sent half way around the world. If Hornby are getting poor QC from their contractors, then Hornby should be looking for other builders for their models. The Hornby Class 31 has had issues with mazac rot for many years and it still recurs in newer models. Perhaps Hornby need to make their factories aware that it isn't acceptable, for their models to disintegrate perhaps just after a standard warranty of 12 months. Might save them money in the long run.
  6. That's probably not a fair question, if the price from Chinese factories is all over the place on dispatch, how can any retailer, answer the question accurately. China doesn't even give a reason, or if they do it's based on lies. Look for various exports from Australia, that the Chinese banned or levied enormous tax charges, without any notice whatsoever.
  7. From running a business, it doesn't matter where the goods are made, what matters is the price the item is sold for (income), against the cost of running the business, including sending it to the customer (expenses). As long as the former is more than the latter, the location of manufacturer, has no consequence to a retailer. There are reasons why it is better for a NATION if more goods are made locally, but retailers, no. Maybe you don't know, but Australia no longer makes cars (except very limited specialist builds), which IMO is a far bigger loss.
  8. Waited a year for some previously offered help, comes on here and in just over 2 days gives up!
  9. A disappointing view, after some good advice.
  10. Did I state that YOU said any such thing? I was making a general statement about others comments, which has occurred several times within this thread. I didn't want to highlight particular statements, but you seem to want to defend yourself! I don't expect the real details will ever make the public domain, why should they? Hattons was a private company and they owe us nothing as regards the gory details. People need to understand that and anyone who takes over a proportion of the business and some of the ideas, needs to remember that for reasons to be careful of, DIDN'T WORK!
  11. Almost certainly BR purchased a relatively new loco for near scrap price. After all what else were Brush going to do with an ex-demonstrator loco, there was hardly a huge market for it.
  12. Yes, it's sheer nonsense to say the Hattons (or anyone else for that matter) dealt with overseas customers, out of the goodness of their hearts, as I have seen many times, within this thread - often to the point of opining that this was the cause of the demise of Hattons. Richard has previously stated that there were many reasons why Hattons had to close, but some trot out the 'blame the overseas buyers' nonsense yet again. The signs of the oncoming demise were obvious, for sometime the ads in magazines etc were diminishing significantly. Certainly the dreaded overseas customers didn't wait for magazines to turn up in newsagents/hobby shop, before buying their specials. The specials would long have expired. If the Trunk system (which I'd never heard of before this thread) had been sending the business broke, then I'm sure Richard (who I've never met in any format) would have cancelled the system long ago, as would any sensible business owner.
  13. Exactly, there were all sorts of obscure locations, not just towns and cities, but sidings and factories, collieries, mines etc. So someone had to know, even if sent elsewhere for remarshalling. No good sending it 50 miles in the wrong direction, for someone it later get the task of finding it and correcting the mistake. Perhaps wasting a day.
  14. The 'good reason' is not as simple as that, because my understanding is that once a wagon has been emptied of it's load, pre-pooling of certain wagons, it had to be returned to the owning company, by the quickest practical means. However, it does not mean that it had to be returned empty, it could have a suitable return load, either to the owning company OR a location in the general direction. I'm not 100% certain of this, but if a Caledonian wagon outside of any pooling arrangement was in say London, could the LNWR load it with something going to perhaps Preston, empty it there, then send it on it's way to say Carlisle for the Caledonian to receive it back? The system allowed a few days to allow for vehicles to be returned and also there was an average, so if the LNWR had 80 wagons of a particular type and the C.R. 20, as long as the percentages matched, no fees were paid. On a given day when counted, the LNWR could have 70 LNWR and 10 C.R. and if the C.R. had 10 of it's own and 10 LNWR, then no money was due, because they had 10 of each others fleet. I'm expecting to be told I'm wrong here!
  15. Yes, this was the case and Eddie Bellass explained all this, along with his loco drawing and photos of 'Clan Mackenzie' 14768 and a C.R. horsebox with ventilators of that type. There is also a guards van, behind the tender. Most is opaqued out, but part of the wheels can be seen through the tender wheels. But the photo of 14768 is an official photograph, so that can't be wrong, can it? 😇 Model Railway Constructor 1978 August.
  16. But it's not a cattle wagon, or a prize cattle van!
  17. Yes, because the Duette has separate windings on the internal transformer, for the 2 controllers in the case. There might be other reasons for upgrading to a better controller - mostly because they work MUCH better on modern motors.
  18. Colour aside, think of the big debates that sometimes occurs, when people try to identify a location, or the type of loco/rolling stock, of a photo. Books are notorious too, on how they print a photo, sometimes top quality reproductions (such as Wild Swan etc) and very grainy, such as some Ian Allan books and plenty of other publishers. So colour is sometimes the least of the problems!
  19. But that's mainly because IIRC, he resented anyone questioning his decision, so green it was!
  20. The only difference (if indeed any!), is that the N Gauge power pack would put out less volts, thus ensuring N Gauge motors don't get cooked. Running modern OO (it's probably advertised by Kato as HO), is fine, because they use less current than older motors. So continue using it, without dramas.
  21. I've only used 1 surface mount point motor, but I believe that they are more delicate than the normal PL10 version. But perhaps those that have used them, would be able to confirm, but 100% a CDU is an essential item and a suitable power supply.
  22. I had a similar request to assist someone to sort out some DCC issues on his layout about 2 or 3 years ago. At the time he was going into hospital for an op, so I understood that he was going to call me later, when he was ready. However, I was later told that he had moved into an aged care facility and so I presumed that the layout was gone! Last week I accidentally dialled his number and had a conversation with him and I brought up the change of address issue. He told me that there was no way, he was going to one of those places! He also mentioned that a number of people had promised to help him out, but everyone has either not turned up, or looked and abandoned him! It appears that he has 6 loops of track and sidings, but only one loop works - so very disappointing for him. So it looks like a have a task after all! My point of posting, is that communication is the key, to what happens, if indeed anything. I'm not going to volunteer Holby, as a bit far to come!
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