[dario]

Since last year, Hornby took over the assets, paying 5.5 million pounds, of the Rivarossi-Lima-Jouef-Arnold group (in practice, the moulds).
Production is shifted to China.
The hope was in an improvement in the mechanical reliability and utmost care in detail.
Both these targets are hopelessly missed in Italian-prototype models made in China.
Now it is well known that the quality of British-prototype models is only toy-like. There is no comparison with German makes (ref. Warship diesels by Fleischmann and Maerklin) or Bachmann UK.
Is this state of things accepted in UK, or has anybody complained to Hornby? Nothing quite like the original Hornby OO quality, I remember.
The level of disappontment from Italian Modellers has gone over the brink.
The latest D341 diesels have out-of-scale headlights that call for vengeance! The only right action Hornby could do is recall all the D341 models delivered so far and send them to scrap.
I wait for any comment.
Dario