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REGISTRAR NEWS ApRIL 2006
‘Welcome to the following new members...’
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michael J. meadows Rev. michael
page-chestney Tim c. falls
Tom Rayer
b.J. Sims
frank Diment
fred a. Hayselden John Roebuck George Woolnough Richard Wilcox
K. Woodbridge John Womersley ian Rankin
Keith fox
m.T. Tame
michael allen
Roy m.H. Hammett Guy Hardy
David barfield
K G aiston
W. (bill) beasley
mrs Tess G. Wareing
G. Spiller ian lampkin
ian lewcock David a. Thomson brian m. petty Moves
Stuart Davies
m R lettinga
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18/20 Stoneham St, coggeshall, Essex cO6 1TT
344 pelham Rd, immingham, lincs DN40 1pU 3 montpellier park, llandrindod Wells, lD1 5lW
74 castle Rd, Winton, bournemouth bN9 1pl
18 Dombey St, london Wc1N 3pD
1 Ketchers field, Selborne, alton GU34 3Db
14 Dun croft close, clitheroe, lancs bb7 2JR
6 adamson close, chandlers ford SO53 1ND
3 Highland cottages, llanbedr Dc, ll15 1yf
46 ludwells Orchard, paulton, bristol bS39 7XW
38 clifford Rd, Droitwich Spa, Worcs WR9 8UR
mockbeggars cottage, Westbrook St, blewbury, Oxon OX11 9QG 75 Eastburn Rd, balornock, Glasgow G21 3NS
99 bighead Rd, lenzie, Glasgow G66 4Ub
43 Rockington Way, crowborough TN6 2Nl
cregganna, Oranmore, co Galway, Eire
10 St peters Way, Winchcombe, Glos Gl54 5yN
cawdron House, 111 charles St, milford Haven Sa73 2HW Rose cottage, Stone Quarry Rd, chelwood Gate, W Sussex
TElEpHONE 01376 562810
01469 572560 01597 825452
07966 803194 0207 831 6196 01420 511197 01200 423977 N/a
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N/HO/OO HO/HOn3
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Genl.US N/a
NE US by letter
RH17 7lp
34 fulford park, fulford, york yO10 4QE claydene, Hartfield Road, cowden, Kent TN8 7Hf
65 mallory Drive, Warwick cV34 4UD
apt. 12, Warren court, Warren Road, Torquay TQ2 6c monson Road, Redhill, Surrey RH1 2ET
HO N HO HO HO N/a N ON30
N/a
aTSf/Up/Sp y N/a N Nyc y Nyc y cNW/Sp y N/a y N/a y milW y
milW N/a
246 cannon Hill lane, Raynes park, london SW20 9HN 10 boreland Road, inverkeithing, fife Ky11 1Da
9 carlisle Way, bracebridge Heath, lincoln lN4 2Va
60 Ringway Rd, moss Nook, manchester m22 5Nf Dresselhuysstraat 15-c 3039 Zh Rotterdam The Netherlands
e-mail: brasstracks@ntlworld.com
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US logging
West coast & florida
Nyc bN & cb&Q N/a
N y N & HO y
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HO y HO/OO y
01761 414504 01905 796868 N/a
0141 557 0269 0141 776 0216 01892 662313 00353 8763 92711 01242 604145 01646 692254
01825 740497 01904 656991 01342 850194
01926 747340
01803 209224
round.house@ virgin.net
0208 540 2675 01383 416991 01522 856 051
0161 498 8032
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01824 707723 HO Gn/cb&Q/logging N/a
General US
& canadian HO N/a
pacific
Northwest HO/OO N
Nb Division representatives use the DiV code in the directory to send out phone/mail messages to send out local meet information. if you wish to be included in this service in adjacent division you must inform that representative. Only contact the Registrar if you wish to be permanently re-coded to another division.
Joining a friend? phone me or e-mail and i will send a form. current subscription rates are usually listed in ‘Roundhouse’.
all members please make sure that you inform the Registrar of any change of address or phone number. please do this even if you have advised the Editor.
Send any changes to: The Registrar, michael ingham, 15 Harcourt Drive, Earley, RG6 5Tl. michael@theinghams.com
The full Region Directory is published once a year, this year in april. We suggest that members pencil in such changes as are announced periodically, to keep their current Directory up to date.
End of an Era W Alan Corkill
By Xmas 2005 a well-known model shop in Vancouver, BC is expected to have closed. Van Hobbies was started in 1947 by Phil Crawley and Ron Small and within a few years had started to import a long line of Canadian brass models, which I think started with a Canadian Pacific semi streamlined F-2-a class 4-4-4 copied from a scratchbuilt model by AI Schwartz (I hope I have it right).
Pacific Pike did a D10 class 4-6-0 with open frame motor and solid frames (no springs) which was crude by today’s standards but all there was at the time. Before long ‘oriental craftsmen’ were producing Royal Hudson 4-6-4s to rival a Tenshodo version but the big breakthrough came when they obtained early models by an unknown manufacturer called SamHongsa. First efforts were imperfect but they learned quickly and by 1980 the CPR S2a class 2-10-2s were just about perfect in every way.
Like the Japanese, the Koreans priced themselves out of the aver- age modeller’s range, and new names took over. The last two pro- jects included several versions of CPR Hudsons and Royal Hud- sons complete with coasting drive and a lift-off cab to reveal fully detailed interiors. Also Canadian National U-1-a/b class 4-8-2s
with forward-mounted Elesco heaters giving a rugged look. My own effort was a U-1-b made by converting a U-1-f or Bullet Nosed Betty, but I was hoping to use a spare tender. Alas, no spare tenders were made so it was a case of ‘back to the work- bench’.
A final project to do versions of CPR classes D9 and D10 4-6-0s came to nothing because too few orders were received from model shops and collectors. All too often the orders came pouring in too late – after models had been made and distributed. But that was life, and I ended up having finished my own D9 4-6- 0 and tender as a one-off. There aren’t many such scratchbuilt models about these days, more’s the pity.
British Railway Modellers of North America did a long series of splendid picture books to help modellers of Canadian – and some American – scenes, but these too have dwindled and costs of production have persuaded Canadian Rail Car Pictorial of Calgary to cease turning out colour booklets dealing with freight cars. Altogether this is not a good time for serious modellers, but anybody who has models and books and booklets no longer on sale might like to take care of what they have and pass it on to a safe place when they no longer have uses for them.
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