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QUOTE (steverhodes @ 24 Sep 2008, 16:48) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The battle of the 4MTs looks interesting!
Strangely enough I was thinking much the same thing - the first back to back review should make interesting reading.
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Strangely enough I was thinking much the same thing - the first back to back review should make interesting reading.
Regards
QUOTE (34C @ 30 Sep 2008, 17:14) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>While a manufacturer is still employing an R+D team they can still be busy with the process of developing new models, even if it is not certain when those models can be put into production. Bear in mind that it is new introductions that generate a large proportion of a model manufacturers sales over the first couple of years from launch. Without new models in the pipeline there is no potential for strong future profits
With the two main players now producing most of the BR standards, most major diesels, and a large chunk of the big fours top link classes, the problem is surely going to be what to produce next. Assuming that all manufacturers are in business to make a profit and thus keep share holders happy, where are the new products coming from?
Yes the average modeller needs more coaches, especially those of a western persuasion, and there is a shortage of high quality goods stock.
However I suspect that there is nowhere near as much profit in a four wheel wagon as there is in a pacific locomotive.
Regards
With the two main players now producing most of the BR standards, most major diesels, and a large chunk of the big fours top link classes, the problem is surely going to be what to produce next. Assuming that all manufacturers are in business to make a profit and thus keep share holders happy, where are the new products coming from?
Yes the average modeller needs more coaches, especially those of a western persuasion, and there is a shortage of high quality goods stock.
However I suspect that there is nowhere near as much profit in a four wheel wagon as there is in a pacific locomotive.
Regards
QUOTE (34C @ 3 Oct 2008, 14:15) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Surely that's just a Merchant Navy, or original Merchant Navy? Graham Farish offered one in OO, so it's been done, and presumably didn't find enough takers since it disappeared from the catalogue ever after.
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It would seem an obvious prototype for Hornby to offer.
The Farish Merchant Navy (circa 1950) was hardly a long lived model, as indeed was the whole of the OO locomotive range.
Nowadays examples of this, by modern standards, primitive model can reach astronomical sums, especially if boxed. There is perhaps a need for the "airsmoothed" Merchant Navy, and certainly enough variations, I would have thought to make it a viable business proposition.
Personally I think that both Bachmann and Hornby need to look at the trusty 0-6-0 tender locos.
Regards
The Farish Merchant Navy (circa 1950) was hardly a long lived model, as indeed was the whole of the OO locomotive range.
Nowadays examples of this, by modern standards, primitive model can reach astronomical sums, especially if boxed. There is perhaps a need for the "airsmoothed" Merchant Navy, and certainly enough variations, I would have thought to make it a viable business proposition.
Personally I think that both Bachmann and Hornby need to look at the trusty 0-6-0 tender locos.
Regards
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