I think Hattons announced their intension to produce the 14 in May 2008. As you know Heljan have done one or two short runs including I think Falcon. Apparently they use Aluminium Tooling which cuts the set up costs and makes short runs viable. The aluminium tooling does not last very long but is OK for small batches of a few thousand.
Bachmann may be using the same approach with the NRM prototype Deltic.
Best wishes,
John H-T.
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