MrWolf Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 "Ere, sort me ahrt geeza!" No, absolutely not. Were Hornby trying to present the service department as a couple of old blokes in brown smocks who will have it fixed before they finish smoking that Woodbine? Major repairs involved rummaging through dusty pigeon holes in the back room before producing a NOS component still in the remains of War Department wrappings? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 27, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2023 18 minutes ago, MrWolf said: "Ere, sort me ahrt geeza!" No, absolutely not. Were Hornby trying to present the service department as a couple of old blokes in brown smocks who will have it fixed before they finish smoking that Woodbine? Major repairs involved rummaging through dusty pigeon holes in the back room before producing a NOS component still in the remains of War Department wrappings? That sounds like a two Ronnie’s sketch. 1 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Gough Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 5 hours ago, gwrrob said: That sounds like a two Ronnie’s sketch. Four candles? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 28 minutes ago, Nick Gough said: Four candles? Don't start that one, I still feel (vaguely) guilty that I managed to convince someone in an message regarding an exercise that it was to be held on a Scottish island named Far Cawl, until I told him to say it out loud a couple of times. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris45lsw Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 On 26/01/2023 at 20:38, Dunsignalling said: The adaptors used to couple British Standard gangways to the Pullman type attached to the BS ones. Many SR bogie luggage vans carried them almost permanently fitted to the old LSWR gangways they inherited along with their underframes because they mainly worked with Maunsell and Bulleid stock. IIRC the Maunsell brakes for inter-region working only had BS Gangways on the van ends and the sets they enclosed were "normal" in all other respects. John I'm away so haven't got my books to hand to check but I think a few Maunsell brakes had BS gangways both ends but the majority, as you say, only had them at the brake end. Chris KT 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris45lsw Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, chris45lsw said: I'm away so haven't got my books to hand to check but I think a few Maunsell brakes had BS gangways both ends but the majority, as you say, only had them at the brake end. Chris KT Incidentally the SR Gangwayed Bogie Luggage Vans ('GBL') had, at the time, new BS gangways as their second hand LSWR underframes came from non-gangwayed stock whose bodies were used to create suburban EMUs on new underframes. Chris KT 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 28, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 9 hours ago, Nick Gough said: Four candles? Fork handles, handles for forks. 3 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 Got any peas? 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 (edited) 20 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: If you're not a geezer, they probably won't help you. Fine for the Kiwis, then, but I would have thought travelling expenses for them would outweigh the advantages! Or am I ending up in hot water! Lloyd Edited January 28, 2023 by FarrMan wrong word Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 13 minutes ago, Graham T said: Got any peas? I’m needing ‘ose. Paul. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2023 50 minutes ago, Graham T said: Got any peas? Can I have a "P" please, Bob? 4 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 6 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Can I have a "P" please, Bob? Third on the left - you can't miss it. You'd better not! 1 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 24 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Third on the left - you can't miss it. You'd better not! Hence the cleaner’s sign “We aim to please, you please to aim.” Paul. 1 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2023 3 hours ago, 5BarVT said: I’m needing ‘ose. Paul. Got any plugs 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Gough Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 36 minutes ago, John Besley said: Got any plugs Rubber, bathroom? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 15 minutes ago, Nick Gough said: Rubber, bathroom? Nah, 13 amp... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 28, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 Thanks to @BlackRat for the photo of the new Hornby Loriot, any thoughts chaps especially on the floor colouring choice. 5 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike_Walker Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2023 Looks like a piece of well polished mahogany furniture to me. Nothing like you'd ever see on a wagon. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 28, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, Mike_Walker said: Looks like a piece of well polished mahogany furniture to me. Maybe David Dickensen now works at Margate.🤣 2 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 I can’t see what the two screws do either ( yup I’ve undone them) as it doesn’t seem to secure the ‘floor’. The models ok, but I’m not sure I’d have paid over £40 for it and bearing in mind the RRP is something like…..£47! Still by the time I’ve tarted it up I think it will pass muster. 4 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 28, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 1 hour ago, BlackRat said: bearing in mind the RRP is something like…..£47! Ouch.😮 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2023 Would the floor have been planked, longitudinally? I thought that was reserved for China clay wagons. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 28, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2023 14 minutes ago, Siberian Snooper said: Would the floor have been planked, longitudinally? I thought that was reserved for China clay wagons. 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted January 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2023 Is that, planked? Looks more like steel plate, to me. I think I will need to get the wagon bible out and see what that shows. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 5 hours ago, gwrrob said: Thanks to @BlackRat for the photo of the new Hornby Loriot, any thoughts chaps especially on the floor colouring choice. Freshly machined Keruing is that colour, quickly goes a silver grey if untreated. It was certainly being used in the floors of lorry bodies by the 1930s. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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