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THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY

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Protofour and Scalefour Society History

This Page amended on 3 January 2008 (KN)

Hard to believe now but Protofour burst upon the modelling world in 1966.

The first magazine articles to introduce the new standard appeared in the Model Railway News in August and September of that year. This introduction was followed up by a seminal 13 part series in the Model Railway Constructor starting in 1967.
The 'Model Railway Study Group' initiated the Protofour concept and wrote those articles. They provided inspiration to many of us, took a lot of flack, but had the drive to see Protofour established as the standard to aspire to in 4mm modelling. We owe them our thanks. Bernard Weller and Malcolm Cross were members of that study group and continued to actively promote P4 as proprietors of Exactoscale for the rest of their lives. They kindly agreed to our reproduction of these historic documents.

Thanks are also due to the then editors of the MRN and MRC who made publication possible.
The articles are below. 

   Link to the first 25 years timeline, publications and articles.  

Protofour Timeline, Protofour Society Publications Scalefour Society Publications Scalefour Society Chairmen. P4 Magazine articles Publicity/Advertisements
Link to Society Competitions and Awards
Chairmans Cup Deputy Chairmans Cup Beth Evans Award MRJ Chalice Brook Smith Award Cumberland Bowl Irwell Novice Shield Branchlines Award Ken York Trophy Walton-Evans Trophy

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Model Railway News/Model Railways

MRN - August 1966 - PROTOFOUR A New Approach to Modelling Standards
MRN - September 1966 - A New Approach to Modelling Standards, concluded.
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1  January 1967 - a new scale modelling standard.
2  February 1967 - concerning wheels.
3  March 1967 - How tight the curve?
4  April 1967 - PROTOFOUR  4
5  May 1967 - PROTOFOUR  5
6  June 1967 - Tracklaying.
7  July 1967 - PROTOFOUR  7
8  August 1967 - Constructing Turnouts.
9  September 1967 - switches, crossings and junction layouts.
10  April 1968 - Templates.
11  November 1968 - Template jigs.
12  April 1969 - Templates and turnouts.
13  August 1970 - Track finish and operation and wiring of turnouts

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 MR - March 1972 - Carriage and Wagon Wheels, developments in Protofour
MR - April 1972 - Locomotive driving bogie and tender wheels
MR - September 1972 - Carriage and Wagon Suspension - fixed axleguard suspensions.
MR - March 1973 - Minimum Radius Curves
MR - February 1976 - Locomotive Suspension

This page created  by  Keith Norgrove who will be pleased to receive suggestions for additions.

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