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Hi David can I ask?does anyone have any
idea of what was in the last wrightline catalogue? I know Adrian also?had
some tramkits and the IOMR railcars?for 00n3?amongst all?his
patterns and I think he has other interesting bits as well, but he never has
time to produce them all.
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Regards
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Colin Rainsbury
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 3:55
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Subject: Re: [O14] Re: The Stronalacher
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Colin
Adrian Swain (Mr Wrightlines) is
not at all well at the moment.? He is unable to do any casting and his
appearance at ExpoNG is doubtful/unlikely.? Could I respectfully suggest
you do not contact him for a while as he is concentrating on far more
important things than model railways?? If he is at ExpoNG then talk to
him by all means - otherwise I would leave it for two to three months.
As far as I know
Wrightlines has always been Wrightlines.? It was started (35 to 40 years
ago?) by Russell Wright (hence the logo a double-bassist with the Bournemouth
Philharmonic, taken over by Kay Butler and when she retired?
Aidrian.? Adrian (the ABS of ABS Castings) always did the mould-making
and castings and things have reverted back to him.? Sinilarly, other
brands (like IKB and BEC) reverted to ABS once the originators moved on.
Their non-availability
leaves many of us frustrated but all we can really do is to wish Aidrian well
and hope he gets better as soon as possible.
Hope this helps
David
From: "'Colin Rainsbury'
COLINR@... [O14]"
To: O14@...
Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2016,
13:40
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?
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Colin.???
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 10:27
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Subject: Re: [O14] Re: The Stronalacher
Saga
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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.?????
Colin,
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!
Wychbury Loco Works brought out the Ffes England loco which is now sold
by Mercian.
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.
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.
