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Don McErlean posted:

Well guys on the Weekend Tinplate pictures post I described a new French Hornby locomotive that I had gotten and Fatman and French Trains helped me pin it down to postwar type AVO.  However it came with 6 Hornby type 1 coaches and that was too long a train plus 3 were LNER and 3 were LMS so I clearly couldn't run them together (that would be like a PRR sleeper on the 20th Century - pre PC).  So my RR needed some new power.  The solution came today with an auction win of 3 Hornby electric locomotives (all in good to fair condition).  The good part is that all 3 have the 20 volt motor and my ZW can handle that.  All 3 worked beautifully including the reversing mechanism which on these is a remote transformer controlled 2-positon reverse that is activated by taking the voltage to zero thus you get (forward-stop-reverse-stop-forward).  The 3 loco's have all been touched up and in one case repainted (poorly) and all lack any specific RR identifications or numbers.  The one I am posting today appears to be in close to its original matt finish livery and may not have been refinished but it has no RR decals or designations on it.  Because its green, I would guess (note guess) that its SR.  Here is what my research says...

In accordance with my Hornby reference book it appears to be a Type 101T Hornby tank engine (the 101 tank is what the M3 tank became postwar)...this one is postwar and was likely made between 1950 -1954 although the 101 was made from 1949 and the M3 was actually introduced (in simpler form) in 1931although cylinders and drive rods were not added until 1936. I can date mine to at about 1950 due to some details in the openings in the back-head to accommodate clockwork controls (slots vs rectangular holes) , modifications to the back-head to provide clearance to mount both electric and cw motors, and in how the couplers are attached to the frame...all this pushes the date of mfr of my loco to at least 1950 and this loco was not offered post 1954.  While the other 2 locos are about the same, their finish is much less professional.  One is in the black goods livery scheme and is a fairly good but likely post factory spray job while the other is dark green and badly brush painted.  Yet all operate well.

Here is the loco, I will need to find some SR transfers to put on it or at least some proper number transfers

Hornby Green 101 Loco

Here he is pulling a consist of No 1 Hornby LMS coaches.  The engine ran beautifully, reverse worked well, and it had no trouble with the Hornby coaches on my very level layout.

Hornby Green 101 Loco and Coaches

 

Well that's my day today, luckily this is still Easter Holiday for my job so I got to stay home and play today.  Work tomorrow. 

Best Regards

Don McErlean

I use to get my transfers from Wessex Transfers, but they are no longer in business.  Let us know where you get your transfers/decals

Tom,

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
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