[Richard Johnson]

***No, I too think its a UK built loco. The flaky look to the wheel plating screams early Wrenn to me... they never did make them as well as Hornby Dublo. I see it quite often with older loco's (Its a good bet that the insulating sleeve on the driver axles is either cracked or slightly loose due to shrinkage over time too)

Anyway...

If it was chinese built then both of the magnet field bar letterings would be reversed, for Reft and Light

Richard

 

[Richard Johnson]

QUOTE (poliss @ 17 Dec 2008, 22:46) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Looks like a repainted Hornby Dublo Mallard to me. If all the Wrenn mechanisims were the same as shown on this website http://www.wrennrailways.org.uk/motor.htm then it's not Wrenn. The Hornby Dublo motor is shown here http://tinyurl.com/5rger6
The body looks identical to this Hornby Dublo Sir Nigel Gresley http://tinyurl.com/5tzrzu

***Wrenn never changed the chassis in any of the Dublo Locos as far as I know - I've only ever seen Wrenn Duchess and A4 etc with identical basic designs to the one posted. The give away to me is the yellow sleeving on the wiring - Hornby Dublo always used a composite lacquered woven insulation shield.

The motor/chassis seen in the Wrenn advert was created & originally made by Hornby Dublo and I think originally fitted to the Castle, 8F and some others - it was an excellent chassis/motor design and a very smooth mechanism -shame Triang / Triang-Hornby never learned from it.

Richard