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Talking of things "Midland Red" last Wednesday I was looking at a Petrol engined REDD, in fact I had my hand on its exhaust manifold!! anyone care to guess where I was? It wasnt Wythall;)

By pure coincidence, today I was thumbing through my copy of O.S. Nock,s book "GWR Stars Castles and Kings" and a chapter covers the streamlining of both King Henry VII and Manorbier Castle, the streamlining was at the insistance of the GWR board, Collett wanted none of it but the board had been...

"! I can trace a picture, Bill, with Muriel Young and Muffin if you are interested? Ahem! would this be legal?

Im glad this company has been bought to the attention of the forum. I have had a interest in it for some time, they also built some of the stock for the "wagon lits" company operators of the orient express and exported rolling stock and diesel and electric locos all over the world. As mentioned...

Dont get me onto the subject of Iron Foundries, I have been associated with large ones and a small jobing foundry. The large ones made small castings and the small one made large castings!! It was the amount of castings that differed!!:D

Talking of childrens TV. Did any of the males in here fancy Muriel Young?:hoteyes: I seem to remember she shared the screen with an owl called ollie.

Ah just read Mike Bonds post, agreed a wooden pattern it is.

It is common practise to paint wooden patterns red. My guess is this is a pattern from a Foundry but a pattern of what, I have no idea.......ballast weigh for a tram bogie?

This is odd, the "youtube" Torchy clip was in my youtube favourites for a few weeks but I eventually deleted it because I think it looks far to spooky, its is disturbing to say the least, and as for Torchy himself Im suprised we are not a generation of gibbering idiots having had to watch that...

Hi Mike, thanks for responding and of course realising I ment Petrol and not "pertol" having said that do you think I should register the "pertol" name? I might make a fortune! It was a long time ago and I think someone told me it was made from coal but this was probably wrong, it definitely had...

Does anyone remember that short lived branding from ICI? I believe it was made from coal, it definitaly has quite a distinctive smell that of coal gas rather than petroleum. Im not exactly sure when it was marketed from what I remember it was late 60s to early-mid 70s. if it was made from...

When I see images like this I always imagine some bloke out with the family in their saloon ,driver with pipe firmly clenched between his teeth and actually overtaking all the hightly tuned competitors. Or alternativly the same car same family accidently getting involved in the race. The driver...

Austin Devon, Austin 8 or 10, Ford y type, Triumph(razor edge) mayflower

Im going with Rupert, the sloping pillar on the rear doors are the same and lots of other detail, I think the mascot on bonnet prow are the same, I believe it may well be that of a red indian. The image froth posted appears to feature it as well.

Its definitely not a Ford Pilot and Im sure its either American or Canadian..other than that. I dont know.

Bernard, I could not agree with you more, Birmingham and the Black Country were famed for manufacturing all sorts of heavy componentry and it all seems such a great shame that the factories and the skills are diminishing at such a frightening rate. Unfortuntely parliament is in London the...

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Few shots from the DVD taken with camera in front of TV, all very high tech!!

From the website, took a bit of finding but this is the set https://www.dukevideo.com/Railway/DVD/Steam/RAILWAY-ROUNDABOUT-8-DVD-BOX-SET.aspx

Hi Piston, Mine came from an advert in the local paper and I cant remember the suppliers address but looking on the box there is a website of what lloks like a company on the IOM www.dukevideo.com Tel 1624 640000 I have also "googled" and found referances to it from Amazon at what looks...