tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post4205961662736819991..comments2024-03-28T22:24:18.546+00:00Comments on Phil's Workbench: APT nearly looked like thisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-82239486505689850292014-07-06T16:29:21.057+00:002014-07-06T16:29:21.057+00:00You might not be far from the truth. The coaches o...You might not be far from the truth. The coaches owe a lot to aircraft technology and quite a bit of the rest of the design takes its cues from there. Phil Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673614093646938053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-64644828378481453362014-07-06T16:16:42.163+00:002014-07-06T16:16:42.163+00:00We'll probably never know what the starting po...We'll probably never know what the starting point was for the original design study - but it could be very interesting to find out.<br /><br />I can't help wondering if some model aircraft kits might have been harmed in the making of the model.<br /><br />It might be an optical illusion - I might just be mistaken - but the nose and coach bodysides remind me slightly of a De Havilland Comet 1.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-72488761930586673442014-07-06T08:37:37.131+00:002014-07-06T08:37:37.131+00:00If you imagine it in Virgin livery it looks remark...If you imagine it in Virgin livery it looks remarkably like the Pendolino...<br /><br />And what I can't believe is the madnedd of the government, who owned the railways, building a motorway to compete with it, then making a train to go faster than the motorways. Wouldn't it have been simpler to keep cars to do one job and trains to do another?Andy in Germanyhttp://www.korschtal.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com