Hamblings catalogue

 

Found in a box of stuff under a second-hand stall, a rather tidy Hamblings catologue. 

There's some lovely stuff in here. A complete Jinty kit anyone?

Those lever frames would still be useful today.

One of the earliest 08 diesel kits too. 

All this speaks of a time before RTR models, when people had to make pretty much everything, but there were stores where you could go in, and buy all those bits. My guess is that some of them weren't as good as we remember them to be, but it didn't matter. Standards in the hobby were lower, but were modellers happier? (Probably not. I bet they still moaned about everything). 

Sadly, there's no date on the catalogue. I'd guess early 1950s, and would love a time machine to go and take a look.