>I always understood that the Lima Mk3s were their own production not related to Jouef. Weren't they separate companies at the time?.
The takeover of Jouef by Lima took place during my 20 year holiday from modelling, so I can't say.
>They still had buffers and the Jouef wheels were awful.
But the length more than made up for that compared to the "shorty" MkIII that came with the Hornby HST.
David