Improving Hornby spamcans

[Tim Hale]

Elsewhere on this website is an announcement that Shirley Goodall (widow of Albert) is ceasing business. I am planning to take the opportunity to visit one of the last shows that she and Jim Corbett are attending to acquire a few bits to improve my Bulleid airsmoothed Pacifics.

However what is necessary to improve the Hornby Chinese variant for running in the late 50's? The only comment that I have ever found was the replacement of the ashpan (in the S4S guide to St. Merryn), what else on the Hornby model could do with some of Albert's items?

Please note that I am not backdating my locos*, both are fundamentally OK for their chosen period - late 50's- but I am always open to suggestion over essential improvements.

Thanks

Tim

*Dorchester and Watersmeet.

[grovenor-2685]

A much older conversion in Precision No 4. Also from SLAG. Might be worth a read, you never know.
http://www.scalefour.org/forum/s4-news.php Well down the page, Precision comes after S4News.
Keith

[Tim Hale]

Thanks Keith,

I am still hoping that whoever was responsible for Tangmere on St Merryn will respond as the Chinese model is a very far cry from the old Tri-ang version.

So far, I have completed the cylinder drain cocks and the wheel conversion but I am puzzled by the comment in the St Merryn book concerning the ashpan.

Tim

[Horsetan]

Just a side-note: the Albert Goodall castings range has very recently been taken over by Robert Thompson of RT Models, so we might see parts starting to be resurrected towards the end of the year, or indeed next year.