> I was looking at an illustration of these at Swindon in 1932, showing
> > them partially dismantled.
> >
> > How many of the components would have been re-used? Boilers, presumably,
> > went back into the pool (these were the no 4 type, common to classes??? > >
> > Small parts also would have been salvaged, but what about wheels,
> > cylinders, connecting rods, valve gear parts, etc? Would some of this
> > have ended up in new-build Castles, Halls, etc?
> >
> > Henry Law
>
> I don't know, but it prompts me to mention a series of articles
> published in Airfix Magazine many years ago (1967-8?) describing
> projects utilising the Airfix Prairie Tank and City of Truro. By
> combining parts from these two kits and improvising certain components,
> it was possible to contrive an extraordinary number of GWR classes,
> demonstrating the remarkable standardisation that Swindon achieved >
> Placing a City boiler on the Pairie chassis produced a pretty accurate
> 43XX mogul. A County was created using the same components but with
> further butchery of the chassis to accept the City's driving wheels.
> Naturally, a County Tank 4-4-2 could also be created.
>
> By hacking the boiler (or using a bit of tube for a parallel boiler)
> and in some cases utilising the smaller Prairie wheels in the City's
> frames, practically every double-framed 4-4-0 was produced - Bulldog,
> Flower, Atbara, Duke, Dukedog.
>
> Finally, a City boiler was mounted on a mostly-scratchbuilt 2-6-0
> chassis to produce an Aberdare.
>
> Andy
I would dread to suggest that nobody on the net still has that magazine, but could some of you plastic-hacker types out there reconstruct what could be possibly done, so that we poor souls with limited funds and long winter nights could experiment... on the cheap.
David