Hi All
I thought an update was due, so here's where I'm up to at the moment.
The drawing and dimensions have now been produced and passed onto Tony Riley for producing the wooden bodies.
I have now put together a laser cut steel chassis (photos below) this has the parts from Ken Martin, Graham Jones and wheels from Peter Korzilius.
The chassis was put together with super glue and I've run it on Anglia Roads layout for over two hours with no issues.
The original van shown in previous posts, I've now scrapped off the all strapping and am in the process of fitting brass angle of several different profiles.
I will post a photo later, there were three resin kits produced and I intend to replace all the strapping on them with brass angle in time.
Clutch Side. The brake lever is not as bad as it looks sideways on.
Opposite Side I shall be replacing the instanter link with a normal link.
This chassis is a modified one the next one will have strapping fitted where the empty slots are. the slot nearest the headstock's should have had a small fitting in them but I didn't realise until after I'd glued the chassis together, hence the spring and wire to each draw hook.
Last photo of one end. For the time being I'm only working on non fitted versions, these had just the three link couplings.
Dave