Accucraft UK March 2011 BULLETIN

FUTURE DELIVERY SCHEDULE Below are the anticipated UK delivery dates for various items.

L&B Lyn Live Steam - April W&L Countess live steam - April I O M Caledonia Live Steam - April C

ode 332 Straight Track - April Mason Bogies Live Steam and Electric - April

W&L Countess electric - May

I O M Caledonia Electric - May

L&B Open Wagons - June

Chopper Couplings and Wheels - June

Ragleth and Power units - July

W&L Countess live steam - September

I O M 'Peveril' Live Steam - early 2012

I O M 'Peveril' Electric - early 2012

WD BALDWIN 4-6-0T We were planning to re-run this model later this year. However the required number of orders has not been forthcoming so this project has been put back till 2012. It will still go ahead, just delayed until the orders build up.

CODE 332 EURO STYLE 45mm GAUGE '1' TRACK This is proving very popular as an alternative to LGB and Aristocraft; it is also very competitively priced. Check Stock Status for actual stock levels. We are now also stocking Accucraft rail joiners and rail clamps for Code 332 track.

L&B MANNING WARDLE 2-6-2T 'LEW'. We have announced our intention to develop this model and hope to have a sample by the 2011 Llanfair show. The model will have working Joy valve gear. At the present moment we have no details on price or release date, and we are not taking orders for this model until the sample has been fully evaluated.

L&B COACHES We have approved the designs for these and hopefully tooling will start in March so we hope to have samples by the Llanfair show. We intend to package the models in the usual manner of or other coaches, which are two units to a case. All the coaches will come with a transfer sheet for the 'SOUTHERN RAILWAY' transfer and for the relevant running numbers. The coach doors will have the correct class transfers already applied. The Brake/composite coach will only be one running number, which is No15. Both the 3rd class Centre Observation coach and the 3rd class coach will have four different numbers and the Composite coach will have two different numbers. We do not have firm prices yet but think they will be in the region of £185.00 per coach. We will do the Brake /composite No15 and the 3rd class coaches in the first production batch which we hope will be here by the end of November 2011. We will follow with the other two types of coaches as warehouse space becomes free; they take up a great deal of space! Each shipment of two types is at least a 40 foot container load.

The order codes are below and we are now ready to take orders. We expect demand for these models to be heavy so to avoid disappointment please get your orders in early. As mentioned above they all will be packed two units to a case.

R19-18. L&B Brake/composite coach No15

R19-19. L&B 3rd Class coach.

R19-20. L&B 3rd Class Centre Observation coach

R19-21. L&B Composite coach

ORDERING OF RADIO CONTROL LIMITED RUN MODELS - COUNTESS AND LYN In the ordering of the last batches of these two models there were many changes made to orders by dealers between manual and R/C. This has resulted in much confusion. We cannot allow this to happen in future as it has taken many hours to sort out and some people have not got there full allocations of models. In future in the initial stages of order taking we will only accept orders for manual models. We are asking that the dealers keep their own list of manual and R/C orders, as these seem to regularly change. When the locomotives have arrived at the docks in the UK we will e-mail or phone all dealers with orders to alert them to the fact that we will be contacting them when the locos are actually in our warehouse and ready for delivery, to ascertain how many models of their manual orders they want changing from manual to radio control. Straight after this we will dispatch the manual models and conversion of the radio control versions will commence. No changes to orders can be made after this point.

ISLE OF MAN 'CALEDONIA' LIVE STEAM AND ELECTRIC The batches are starting to fill up. If you require any of these models and do not have any on order please contact us without delay to avoid missing the batch. We are only doing manual control on the live steam models.

BAGULEY DIESEL We have developed a brand new 'all metal' chassis for this model. Drive is on to the centre axle and the model has all metal drive rods. We think the new RRP at today's VAT rate would be £275.00. If you think there is still a market for this model, in its new form we would be interested to here from you, and what new colours should be added to the range. We are thinking of the current colours of Green and Black and adding Blue, Maroon, and Yellow.

W&L COUNTESS - ELECTRIC The batch for this loco is almost sold out; only BR Black models are now available.

W&L COUNTESS LIVE STEAM The current batch that is on its way is almost sold out. All Black models are sold and we only have a couple of GWR Green available. A new batch is on order for September delivery.

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