IF I've got this correct, some of the Wrightlines kits originated or had masters made by Roy Link, Robin Wright took them over and passed them on later to Kay Butler. I think Robin now trades in 16mm as Wrightscale. Don't quote me, but I think that is (W)right.
From: O14@... [mailto:O14@...] Sent: Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 13:41 To: O14@... Subject: Re: [O14] Re: The Stronalacher Saga
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You are correct Andrew
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No sooner than I had posted my reply, than I looked around the web and found that some of the kits which I though had been done where in fact figments of my imagination.
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I will have to have a chat to that nice man who has all the wrightline moulds to see what can be done and just what kits he is doing.
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Just out of interest, but what where wrightlines called before wrightlines, I am sure they took over another model manufacture before they started or am I just dreaming that as well?
On Oct 12, 2016, at 00:32, 'Colin Rainsbury' COLINR@... [O14] <O14@...> wrote:
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That said, I am sure Wrightlines used to do Prince and the?Darjeeling B tank and we know that EDM will have the L&BR 2-6-2 kit at some stage, and I think chivers fines lines used to do a 7mm scale Vale of Rheidol 2-6-2 as well, but I am sure the others don't have kits, so there is a lot of scratch building to do in that case.?????
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Colin,
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Sadly, your memory is playing tricks with you, the only part of that which is correct is that EDM will be bringing out the L&B 2-6-2!
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Wychbury Loco Works brought out the Ffes England loco which is now sold by Mercian.
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The Darj B Class is available through EDM Models, the only other 7mm scale version I know of was a French manufactured kit, others have proposed it but not brought it out.
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Wrightlines got to the stage of producing patterns and castings for the VoR tanks but this never got to the stage of being a released kit.