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Good day all, I would like to fit a Whitaker tablet catcher to the Acme Ivatt 4MT kit tender I'm building at the moment. I'm just about resigned (like just...
Bruce, Now that looks promising, all I need is Sam out of Casablanca to play it. Funny enough we have a relatively new supplier of figures in the UK, and he ...
Steve, Have a look at the Guild Executry list, you will get some sort of feel for current prices there. The locos on offer have photographs by which to judge...
Ian There definitely is no commercial item. I have scratchbuilt a pair in the past using a photo. It is not difficult a lot of detail can be missed as the item...
Bob, How would you produce a joint between rods without involving a crank pin? And how about the joint which is at 90 degrees to a crank pin? The GWR 2800...
I cant think of their name but people at Newbury who mainly do GWR bits and pieces produce an etched brass Whitaker tablet catcher which is very good but needs...
... I have a booklet that was published in 1982 by the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust entitled Alfred Whitaker and the Tablet Apparatus, author is P E ...
I have just looked again at the kit and, as I suspected, the rods are etched steel with provision for the normal joints on the 2nd and 3rd wheels (such joints...
Hi all I'm sure you're thoroughly sick of the previous photo, so last night I finally managed to get a new front page photo up - George sent a photo of Little...
Dan, I'm afraid it needs to be an upright, my 'mobile bordello' wouldn't have space for a grand, and it's hardly the place for the 'Palm Court Orchestra! Frank...
Raymond, I can't be absolutely certain, as I haven't got my library to hand, but I thought the rods on the production versions of the 28xx, ie not No. 98, only...
Raymond, I assume you have photos of the proposed 28XX victim. Have a close look at the coupling rods, on two of the class they were fluted. Uncommon to say...
John A little late on this, away over Easter plus other things.... When we modelled "Gas Works" we went for accelerated traffic to make it interesting for the...
... This was from my O-level chemistry, 45 years ago. The other similar reaction was producer gas, made by passing air over hot coal. Significant for the last...
A couple of months ago I asked if anyone made a kit of a Ford Model TT truck. Bill Barnes replied that he though Classic Commercials did one. I dropped a...
We have two good drawings of the M&GN Whittaker tablet catcher in the M&GN Circle collection. There were slight differences with the S&D version but you will...
Thanks to Jim and Frank for the info., I shall take great care over the clearances now. I did know about the fluting, either way, I still have a good deal of...
I believe London Transport utilised "producer gas" during WWII. I recall seeing LT's and ST's towing a sort of boiler arrangement which the conductor...
Thank-you all for the very helpful responses to my request. I should say that for the Ivatt I'm looking for the LMS / M&GNJ variety of catcher. I know there...
John, Bob, Many years ago we demolished a brick wall where I worked. Out of it came a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway weight note, for a load of coke from the...
Hi All, I just wanted to say thankyou for the infomation about where to get the bits I mentioned. I visited John Shelley of Fourtrack today and got all the...
... incredibly tight on the Slaters 28xx - I used the Martello slidebars and crosshead on mine and got away with it; one of our other club members used the...
RCTS Locos of the GWR, Pt 9, Standard Two Cylinder Classes... The frontspiece is a photograph of an early example of the production engines, the caption draws...
Hi Ian, CPL do a version that is based on the most common GWR variant of Whitaker's catcher. I cannot speak for the M&GN, but on the SDJR the catcher detail...
