All - had a message from one of our members asking a couple of interestion questions.
o Name Huw Thomas
o Email huwthomas125@hotmail.com
o Phone +357 99189083 / +65 90292914
o Address PO Box 42294 Larnaca, Cyprus 6532
o Message Hello All. We've been in contact before on various issues, however I was looking at the recent thread of messages on the Hornby Live Steam website and it's got me thinking that Adrian is possibly right about Live Steam being a niche market that people will pay more for, if it were to be more accessible. What do you anticipate it would need in funds to launch and execute a campaign to get a significant number of the dormant LS models back into your control, and.... possibly increase the range of models available with a LS 9F? I'm just looking possibilities here, and if a proposal makes sense, I am even prepared to invest. I'd be interested to hear you thoughts on this. Kind regards, Huw
· Sent on: 21 May, 2018
I have included my reply below but if any of you want to more information or to follow this up then Huw's details are included above
Huw
I have to admit that I don’t know the answer to your questions.
We currently do buy up, service and sell a limited number of locos, but that process is current being funded by Maurice, not the club although he very generously donates all the profit to the club.
Based on the current level of research information we believe creating new loco would need a six figure sum plus but would have quite limited sales possibilities. At the moment we are exploring an alternative around the possibilities of creating limited edition specials. More news soon.
I will post your email onto the club committee management website along with your email address so some of the committee may well get in touch directly
Best regards
Chris
Chris Oakes
OO Live Steam Club Secretary
I have had a reply back from Simon about the possibility of producing high temperature plastic bodies.
Not good news unfortunately
Simon Kohler
Dear Adrain,
From memory I believe we ended up creating new tooling or at least heavily modified tooling for both the A4 and A3 models.
As for your request to run off other types of bodies, firstly the cost would be prohibitive as they would need new bolsters etc. plus sadly they have all be scrapped.
Sorry.
Kindest regards
Simon
From: Adrian Campbell <adrian@planestv.com> Sent: 01 June 2018 13:00:27 To: Simon Kohler; Simon Kohler Subject: Commissioned job to supply Hornby bodies
I seem to recall that when you originally made the Live Steam A4 and A3 you used older/redundant moulds (from Triang days?) just in case the high temperature plastic damaged the moulds. Did it damage the moulds? Would Hornby be prepared to supply a batch of bodies using the same high temperature plastic using old Triang moulds for, say Battle of Britain9FCoronationTranscontinental Hiawathaetc Kind regards Adrian Adrian CampbellChairmanOO Live Steam Club