What we have here is a Lima HO scale 10ft BR box van - in Lima livery.
According to Ramsay's guide, it will have been manufactured in 1975. But that's all I know, because this model isn't listed in the guide!
That makes it properly rare, and probably worth more then the fiver the guide shows for other vans, and what I paid for it. I've always liked manufacturer liveried models, and have a soft spot for the Lima HO range. Somewhere I have the Castrol GTX livery, a favourite of mine, for reasons I don't understand.
This is a pretty basic model. Buffer heads? Who needs buffer heads? Horrid plastic wheels and basic brake gear too, although this was par for the course back in the 1970s.
Should Lima HO deserve more of a following than it has? I can't even find a Facebook group, and there's one of those for pretty much any topic.
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That's a new one on me. I'll have a look. Thanks!
Hi Phil, I think that's one of the much simplified vans Lima did for their basic trainsets - does it have a separate chassis, or is it a one-piece body/underframe moulding with just the roof separate?
I've been detailing my H0 wagon builds, including some Lima van conversions on RMWeb, in the British H0 area.
Oh... And there's an active British H0 society (free to join their groups.io, which includes back issues of the Satellite magazine) and there are fairly active Facebook groups for both British 1/87 and British/Irish/Worldwide 1/87 modellers. Hth!
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