Re: Starting up
开云体育Roy, ? Yes those wheels were a godsend and you introduced them just as I was giving up with my struggle with Stephen Poole plastic curly spoke wheels.? I think I still have some of the early Wrightlines Tal-y-Llyn Railway slate wagons with solid Jackson wheels as I can’t get the axles out without ruining them.? I used to get away with running them as a rake on Dyffryn as they went straight through the station without stopping.? You and Alan must have sold a fair few to Wrightlines over the years! ? I am a bit of a squirrel as I still have the original boxes for your Bagnall, Motor Rail and Hudswell locos (and I might even finish them soon). ? Regards, ? Robin ? From: o14@groups.io [mailto:o14@groups.io]
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Sent: 21 April 2018 12:26 PM To: o14@groups.io Subject: Re: [o14] Starting up ? Robin, ? Yes, these were the very first products I sold, albeit initially for 16.5mm gauge, back in the early 1980s. Alan Gibson approached me with regards die-sinking wheel tools for him, and subsequently sent me blank centre buttons for his wheel moulding bolsters for pantographing. They were for new 4mm scale wheels in 12, 10.5 and 9mm diameters, so I machined three extra buttons - with 7mm scale NG ‘curly spokes’ which Alan kindly moulded for me and supplied them with blackened steel tyres, ready mounted on pin-point axles. He also sold me the blister packs and top-hat brass bearings. Header cards were printed locally and away I went. Well worth keeping ‘as is’ - a piece of NG modelling history . . . ? Roy ? |
Robin Edwards