MW's 5" Gauge Locomotive Announcement

Hi All 5" gauge locomotive builders,

Sorry for the delay in announcing the new owner of the 5" gauge locomotive business i was waiting for the gentleman to give his permission for us to say something. Below is an email received from him last night.

Good luck with completing your engines.

Dean & Steve.

Please advise that the Engineers Emporium have aquired the stock and designs of the ModelWorks 5" locomotive range and will be continuing with the production.

Customers will be contacted shortly by letter but can contact our office 01455 220340 9am/3pm mon fri and talk to Fay or leave a message out side those times and we will call back or e mail info@theengineersemporium.co.uk

A member of staff will also be hapy to talk to you at the model engineer exhibition this weekend at Ascot race course.

Please bear with us as we get to grips with the products.

Regards

Adrian
THE ENGINEERS EMPORIUM
SERVING ITS CUSTOMERS FOR 25 YEARS

Anyone had any contact with the THE ENGINEERS EMPORIUM regarding their locos yet??

Regarding The Egineers Emporium Ex. ME's 5 inch gauge kits. I received an email on 22nd September informing that they will in touch shortley, however no contact as yet to date.

Regarding contact with the Engineers Emporium I have this morning received in the post a nice colourful brochure of their products and a questionnaire to fill in.

They inform me that they have taken over the 5" live steam loco range previously supplied by MW and will shortly be continuing the production of all parts to complete our locomotives.

We have to be patient while they familiarise themselves with the range but they do have previous experience of Winsons range having built many examples.

Hopefully we should all start to resume building our loco's once more

Did it ever happen, apart from the origional questionair no further contact has been received, has everybody given up or taken another route to compleation, failing that scrapped their locos??

Vapor

Is there any update on who is taking over this. I got told by a guy at my club that they saw at a show a full kit for the Hunslet 0 4 0 Charles. I love this Loco due to firing it's sister engines on the Ffestiniog and i'm trying to find out who it is thats doing it but have had no joy.. does anyone know? or if you visiting Harogate this weekend keep and eye out for me as I ordered the planes to build my own but a Kit route would be so much quicker..

thanks for any info.

Jo

Regarding this topic, I noticed recently that Lynx Model Works are now doing 5" and 71/4" gauge locomotive kits. Not sure if the name means any connection to the original Modelworks though. They are offering parts to order for the Modelworks Duchess on one of their pages so not sure what information/rights they have to the designes.
Brian

Word of warning dont go near them they have had my 5" Duchess since MW went down lots of money spent very little progress and this is not an isolated case, anyone wants info PM me.

Vapor wrote:Word of warning dont go near them they have had my 5" Duchess since MW went down lots of money spent very little progress and this is not an isolated case, anyone wants info PM me.

OUCH!!!!!

shame, I quite fancy a 5" Merchant navy! that they mention

andysleigh wrote:shame

I quite fancy a 5" Merchant navy! that they mention

Well all I can say is dont make any "up front" payment pay when you collect and run it first if not you could be still waiting 4 years later and all you'll have had is a cart load of bullshit and blatent lies.

I'd love to see STW doing at least one or two Locomotives... I really want a 5" gauge Linda, Blanche or Charles but cant find any for sale pre-made and a kit would be so much easier to make..

Do STW do commisions for Locomotives??? hint hint! Dean!! i'd draw it up for you in cad and even make the patterns for the casting!

Jo