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Quote from: maridunian on Today at 10:12:40 AMI wonder how many of these have been made over the past half century?

Mike

Indeed even longer than half a century I think, the wagon was, if memory serves introduced in the early 70s so that tooling has well and truly paid for itself!

The first batch of these wagons were built in 1966. The Peco model is close to the first design, but the spacing of the outer stanchions is wrong. Later designs had fewer vertical stanchions.

They were probably first made by Peco in around 1969, because the 15' tank wagons came out in about 1967 (made originally by Minitrix IIRC) and then by Peco around 1969. I was still into OO at that time. I remember the adverts in the RM called "Whisky galore". They had sprung couplings at the start. Elsie couplings came about on the 10' wheelbase wagons first. I had some of both 15' and 10' wheelbase wagons in 1971 when I started in N. The Peco wagon chassis were considered much better than the Farish ones at the time.

Not sure if I've added anything to the discussion! And very off topic.

The oldest price list I can find is 1988 when these sold for £3.25 each. According to the Bank of England, that would be £9.29 in today's money.

I've no idea whether these have been in continuous production or batched, but my impression is they have always been available to buy, and are clearly a profitable enough product!

Mike

I've asked the question on RMWeb:
https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/200762-mystery-triang-gauge/

Quote from: Roy L S on Today at 10:22:38 AM

Quote from: maridunian on Today at 10:12:40 AMI wonder how many of these have been made over the past half century?

Mike

Indeed even longer than half a century I think, the wagon was, if memory serves introduced in the early 70s so that tooling has well and truly paid for itself!

The first batch of these wagons were built in 1966. The Peco model is close to the first design, but the spacing of the outer stanchions is wrong. Later designs had fewer vertical stanchions.

They were probably first made by Peco in around 1969, because the 15' tank wagons came out in about 1967 (made originally by Minitrix IIRC) and then by Peco around 1969. I was still into OO at that time. I remember the adverts in the RM called "Whisky galore". They had sprung couplings at the start. Elsie couplings came about on the 10' wheelbase wagons first. I had some of both 15' and 10' wheelbase wagons in 1971 when I started in N. The Peco wagon chassis were considered much better than the Farish ones at the time.

Not sure if I've added anything to the discussion! And very off topic.

Yes - I have to agree they have also been testing my patience.

I receive a lot of persistent mail attempting to sell me stuff on my work accounts, soem of it quite relevant (to work) , but Rail's attempts go way beyond that.... soemeon needs to expalin to them how counterproductive their strategy is...

Quote from: maridunian on Today at 10:12:40 AMI wonder how many of these have been made over the past half century?

Mike

Indeed even longer than half a century I think, the wagon was, if memory serves introduced in the early 70s so that tooling has well and truly paid for itself!

I wonder how many of these have been made over the past half century?

Mike

Quote from: kusojiji on Today at 02:44:37 AMAnd the Pips. something definitely missing...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_95Rv68qlvU

Where's Gladys Knight?

  

Hi George,

In the Lady's defence, you have to remember that some people in Ireland haven't seen blue sky before   

Looking at similar locos on eBay, quite a few of them have a similar piece of metal in the box.

With the A, B, C, D & E markings, I'd guess it's a gauge of some description.

Do any of the dimensions match the 16.5mm of OO Gauge track? How do they compare to the back-to-back dimensions of the wheelsets?