Now on the local front I managed to pick up some nice interesting British stuff mainly from the 50's
The centepiece being a wonderful Chad Valley Merlin Streamliner
This was a nice "transitional " piece as it was the first battery powered Loco from Chad Valley and was advertised as being the perfect way to "electrify" your old clockwork sets
Operating off 2 'D' Cells it had forward/reverse and stop in the cab and could be triggered to off with an underside track switch trigger ...
From the same place I picked up a gaggle of same period wagons
The good and the ugly
And as a final treat some more smaller Chad Valley, with ONE noteable exception ... can you tell which?
Hidden amongst the little wagons and tenders is a sleeping gem of a "Wells 'O' London " crane which I suspect is much earlier ... searching the web I have only (so far) found a single picture of one, in which the crane had been substituted by a Mecanno one at some point in its life ...
(Edit ... actually in combing the web I found Freds excellent PDF on his crane trucks which confirms my suspicions !!! Thank you @sncf231e yet again 
Is there anything you dont have LOL! ... However the similarities between the things we love keep turning up over and over )
It reminds me somewhat of the early Bing/Marklin cheaper ones..
All in all a very satisfying haul
