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John K., present owner of Friend's Models, has devoted considerable time and finances to resurrect many "classic" early U.S. locomotive designs in 1/2" and...
... well, you make perfect sense!! and I have often pondered the same question myself, but being sensible is seldom a recipe for everybody agreeing with you...
I've only been a member of the 'Association' for 3 years so wasn't around when the Gauge 3 Society was formed. However, I've just been reading old issues of...
Given the very different needs of the two groups, it seems good to have separate groups supporting each side of the hobby. The scale is very much a ...
Simon Thomas
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Jan 1, 2008 7:58 pm
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President Washington is a design being reintroduced through the 2.5" association. Drawings and castings should be available either now or in the near future. ...
This should be interesting. As has been recently mentioned, a fellow named John Kurdzionak dba Friends Yankee Shop Models (USA) has been in the process of...
Under US and UK law, I believe copyright can only exist for a period of up to 70 years after the author's death for this sort of work. If Mr Coventry passed...
Hello Roger, Mr. Coventry died in 1987 at the age of 100 years. So.the copyrights would still be in place. The copyrights of the Coventry construction articles...
as above, Liberation class locomotive 2-8-0 Vulcan Foundry design for UNRRA LBSC design for 2 1/2" published in EM 1947 has anybody got more details? copy of...
Hi Chris, you've got me on that one! The only mention seems to be in Brian Hollingsworth's book. No mention at all by the Association, either on the website or...
That's what I was thinking Simon. LBSC's version would have probably used Ada castings. Hopefully I might be able to get the write up tomorrow. It may have...
I thought Ada was an LBSC design? (edit-see below) Looking at the pics on SRS I see that its a wide firebox so the Liberation inst a continental WD 2-8-0! Its...
... you are indeed correct :-) Liberation class is a similar design to USA S160 Consolidation class, the main difference is that having been built after the...
Dear all, As some of you are aware, I supply model engineer's transfers, selling the smaller scales direct and the larger ones through the main ME suppliers, ...
Simon Thomas
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Jan 21, 2008 5:52 pm
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Hi Chris, I've been in touch with Gerald Chandler and he thinks it is the S160 design but I'm not convinced. As you say, the Vulcan Liberation is a later...
... thanks John, I know that LBSC had rather "relaxed" :-) attitude and many of his designs were rather more freelance than scale ;-) so whilst I hope that it...
... thanks David, there is a fair bit of information available about the full size ( I am also waiting for the delivery of June 1946 Railway Gazette with ...
I'm a new member to this group and am looking for plans for LBSC's 2-1/2"-gauge "Victoria." This is a single-cylinder loco that was serialized in ENGLISH...
... 2-1/2"-gauge "Victoria." ... MECHANICS in (I think) 1934. ... fine). I've looked all over ... "English Mechanics" was "...a weekly newspaper published from...
I've replied to Marc off list re. Victoria. It seems pretty certain (although not definite) that 'Victoria' is the Southern 0-4-4T. Photocopies of the original...
... that is "the one" - you got it right John, what has confused me, was that published design index: http://www.users.waitrose.com/%7En25ga/Locos/index.htm ...
