Thank god for Frank Hornby. I'm 23 years old and live in America and I love my hornby model trains including my hornby live steam mallard and all my other hornby models. Thank you Frank Hornby and thank you Richard Hallam for inventing the hornby live steam

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

The company Frank Hornby set up in Liverpool collapsed in 1964 and asked rival Triang to buy them out so that shareholders would get some money. All the post 1964 Hornby named products were from a continuation of the Margate Triang Lines Brothers company. Even though financial upheavals in the early seventies meant they had to use the Hornby name only. This creating and cultivating confusion ever since. All to the current Hornby benefit after buying the unearned Hornby history from 1900 to 1964.

@PalomboDylan

Жыл бұрын

@@johnd8892 damn. So it’s still basically triang only under the name of Hornby?

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

@@PalomboDylan A continuing development of Triang at the Margate Triang factory but all much improved. The Triang response to the market being more successful than the failed Hornby Dublo ideas of Frank Hornby and then his family running the company and not recognising what they were doing wrong.

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

@@PalomboDylan one of three videos covering the development of Hornby Dublo , Triang and the reason for the creation of Triang-Hornby ; kzread.info/dash/bejne/nqysx5Z7d9yTfpM.html&feature=share7 All three vids are on the same channel. Most of the Hornby Dublo tooling continued to be made by Wrenn and were mostly made by Wrenn for far longer than Hornby Dublo made the models. Wrenn lasting into the early 1990s but found it increasingly harder to compete with new companies and so they closed. Less covered is why Triang-Hornby had to be called just Hornby, but that worked out well for them effectively having a more revered name that appealed to more buyers and effectively moved the range up market by the new name.

Wonderful part 2.

The point is made about the development of 'detail' which leads to realism, and the question- How real do we want our model layout to be? The answer is it's limited only as far as our imagination or wallet goes.

This is a great video from across the pond. I did not know that they had 3rail model trains also! Cheers from USA and Lionel!

14:48 Cars were traveling at ten or fifteen miles an hour while Mallard was traveling at two miles a minute. Hmmm... the speed limit on California highways in 1938 was 35 mph, but was raised to 50 mph just three years later. How different were things in Britain? The 38 Bentley could do almost 100 mph, according to wiki. The 1938 land speed record is 268 mph.

@Ynysmydwr

5 жыл бұрын

I think he must be referring to the average speeds at which most people would have been driving at that time. The maximum speed allowed on Britain's roads had been 20 mph from 1903 to 1930, but after that there was no maximum speed limit (except for 30 mph in built-up areas and a few instances of 40 mph) until 1967.

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

​@@Ynysmydwryes 10 to 15 mph average car speed then. In a similar way the average train speeds people experienced were no where near 126 mph and that is still a rare average train speed. Even the top speed of Mallard was more a stunt achieved for just a few hundred yards with travellers not experiencing that top speed in the UK until the late seventies HST.

It.s interesting to see how the industry in England paralleled that with the industry in the United States.

@jamurphy8386

7 жыл бұрын

Hornby did very well to nearly carbon copy the marketing scheme of Joshua *Lionel* Cowan... They were both solid products, that ignited many a imagination! Cowan made his Lionel Trains a household name in America, and Hornby did the same in Britain.

That's right the A4 is a popular Locomotive model and I have six A4 models.

I like Ian Rice's comment that building a model railway at home is a waste of time really for it's never going to pay the mortgage or put food on the table. But it may just save someones sanity and therein lies the benefit of building a model railway when depression so besets modern life for a model railway unlike a video or computer game is 3D and you can get your hands everything. You can learn so many skills from carpentry to electrical to kit assembly to building structures from scratch to soldering to DCC software. For people who retire model railways keeps their mind active for once you're no longer working a full time job then the challenge you apply your mind to is no longer there and you can start to slide quickly downhill until life is meaningless and you pass away. So whilst some may think that a model railway has no part to play in the modern world I say they're very wrong and model railways are more important than ever simply for keeping one sane.

The drivers were “astronauts” eh? Well what about the fireman who kept shoveling coal so the driver could have enough boiler pressure to be able to drive the locomotive in the first place????

What is the name of the full documentary?

@Ynysmydwr

5 жыл бұрын

'The Joy of (Train) Sets' -- a programme in the BBC Four series 'Timeshift'.

does you have a shop

very nice layout you got there .Thumbs up for you .Hope you like mine diesel dave's

Clockwork trains were revolutionary back then, but now compared to the latest and more accurate Hornby and Bachmann models there now old antic toys.

@aprofile2857

7 жыл бұрын

Antique*

Awdrys

@SirFowler1

8 жыл бұрын

what about awdrys models?

@azbrowne

8 жыл бұрын

Yes. Also where were they?

@alexfogg236

6 жыл бұрын

Alex-Zander Browne , they are on display at the museum owned by the Talyllyn Railway in Wales.

Still the Germans win. Bing, Märklin etc. etc..