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Market Place => Seen for Sale on Ebay, etc. => Topic started by: John Candy on Nov 06 2012 12:08

Title: Ebay : Bidding frenzy .... but why?
Post by: John Candy on Nov 06 2012 12:08
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scratch-built-live-steam-engine-locomotive-Scale-III-63-5mm-gauge-2-5-inch-/181013256922?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item2a253b1ada&_uhb=1

Above item seems to be attracting a lot of bids (it is cheap which may be reason) but I suppose it may be for the parts rather than the odd looking, incomplete loco.
Title: Re: Ebay : Bidding frenzy .... but why?
Post by: 454 on Nov 06 2012 13:11
Fit for scrap, look at the corrosion on the boiler. Thought it might be a rescaled Tich but that would be an insult to the late LBSC bless him. So why so many bids mystifies me.

Dave
454
Title: Re: Ebay : Bidding frenzy .... but why?
Post by: MikeWilliams on Nov 07 2012 07:24
Had 24 bids when I looked, but 20 of them from two people!

Mike
Title: Re: Ebay : Bidding frenzy .... but why?
Post by: MikeWilliams on Nov 07 2012 10:29
Our Chairman informs me that this is probably a design known as "Sugar" by Rex Tingley, but unusual in having 'shuttle' pistons.

What a lot I still have to learn!

Mike
Title: Re: Ebay : Bidding frenzy .... but why?
Post by: John Candy on Nov 07 2012 11:29
When I took a second look, it is described as "gauge III  1:16 scale" ....... but on 2.5 inch gauge track.
Sounds like a "mish-mash" and certainly a bit of a wreck!

John.