Clockwork hornby

were do you get these from?
they look interesting.

there so cool they deserve a mexican wave.

Nice one smokey !! The first picture on your post is the one I wrote about in your first thread and that I remember from my childhood. Certainly brings back memories !!
Interesting to see that there are still working examples of these around. Thanks for the memories.

Its just occured to me that Hornby no longer make clockwork trainsets and so a long tradition of providing clockwork motors as an alternative to electric motors to operate model railways is no longer available to the British public. 2003 seemed to be the last time a clockwork Hornby appeared in the guise of the one and only Thomas the Tank Engine. So another part of British history is consigned to the scrapyard.

And just at a time when sales of portable clockwork wind up devices is on the increase again!

Happy modelling
Gary

QUOTE (Gary @ 19 Nov 2006, 17:51) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Just imagine how the oil producers would react if somebody invented a clockwork car that could do 150 miles on one 5 minute wind up. Think of all the petrol duty Gordon Brown would not get!

Happy modelling
Gary



never seen "Who killed the electric car but i bet its intresting