Model Railway Constructor, May 1949.
Is this the origin of the tension lock coupling now affixed to all OO ready to run models ?
It certainly looks very similar. Funny how people now moan about the thing disfiguring the model. Back then the fact it operated at all must have been a revelation.
Mind you, if we could have shown a just post war modeller a current Hornby product it would have blown them away. It just shows how far the hobby has moved in the last 50 years. Of course if modern modellers had to build all the couplings themselves, perhaps they'd stop whining about tiny errors in the current batch of RTR !
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