bigmark75f posted:Fatman posted:The Hornby Gods were a little kind to me so for Christmas I have some new treasures coming
Fatman, where to start. Well, the loco in the top picture is an M1, the M3 was a different loco and it appears to have had the mech changed, going by the wheels. These locos were always slot and tab construction too.
And you appear to have confused about 4 different locos in your 3rd paragraph! 😊 "The Hornby Clockwork Train" was the original Hornby set in 1920, nut and bolt construction, and became the No1 loco and tender in 1921. The other train introduced in 1920 was the tinprinted train, sold as such without the Hornby name. It became the No 00 around1925. This later became the M3, and was replaced when they ran out of bits around 1928, with the very rare version of the M3, which was a No 0 loco without buffers of company lettering.
Complicated, isn't it?! 😊
Cheers, Mark
LOL thats what I was getting at tho Mark and your reply is much more direct than my Tangental one ... The early years of Hornby had many different locos switching designation ,models, and morphing willy nilly 
I concur on the Mech issue as it does have the later wheels and the shaft as I mentioned.
And a Huge D'Oh on the nut and bolt .. that was the other one I bought recently LOL ... I am having a touch od "Old timers" !
I think I was trying to provide examples of how it is so hard to correctly identify some 1921-1929 hornby's
Thanks for the clarity however , you expressed the journey much better than I did 
