[John H-T]

First: See the interview with Bachmann in September's Model Rail and Model Rail's review of the 47. Model Rail are always "picky" and highlight the faults in Bachmann's new offering. However they still rate it as the best 47 yet and give it 4 out of 5!

Dennis Lovett of Bachmann told me a story of an incident at a show in Glasgow when he was being berated by someone for getting the rivet spacing wrong on one of Bachmann's models. The conversation was interupted by an ex ship yard worker who "explained" to the person complaining that rivet spacing depending on the day of the week, those on Fridays were more widely spaced than those on placed on Mondays!

I will be quite happy to hand over the cash for the new Bachmann 47, but the Bachmann 37/4 comes first!

Getting Diesel right does seem to cause manufacturers more problems. I understand that the delay in producing the 150 by Bachmann is the result of difficulty in getting copies of all the neccessry drawings.

Best wishes,

John H-T.