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Perhaps his most famous design was "Minories", a plan for a compact suburban terminus built on a folding baseboard. The layout was based loosely on the Metropolitan Railway station at Liverpool Street in London and packed a great deal of operating potential into a modest layout that could easily be built by a relatively inexperienced modeller.
John Whitby Allen (July 2, 1913 – January 6, 1973) was a prominent American model railroader.He pioneered or developed several aspects of the hobby on his HO scale Gorre & Daphetid model railroad in Monterey, California, popularizing them with numerous magazine articles and photographs starting in the 1940s.
Minories is a 'deceptively simple' [1] design for a model railway layout, designed by C. J. Freezer. The design was first published in Railway Modeller in 1957 and it became a regular of Peco's many collected plans books afterwards. [2] It is notable as an influential design, more than as a single instance of the model.
The design survives in the form of a 1:96 scale model of the ship which is now in the ships models collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. [3] This model includes most major rigging (but no sails) and features a paint scheme with white bands across the gun decks accented with red and black bands.
Iain Rice Rice in 2019 with his final layout, Longwood Edge Born Iain Alexander Rice (1947-10-11) 11 October 1947 Crouch End, London, England Died 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) (aged 74) Education Parmiter's School Chingford County High School Reigate College of Art Occupations Railway modeller Writer Illustrator Firefighter Iain Alexander Rice (11 October 1947 – 8 October 2022) was a British ...
The Gorre & Daphetid ([ˈɡɔːri], [dɪˈfiːtɪd]) model railroad was a notable HO-scale layout built by John Whitby Allen in Monterey, California.. The Gorre & Daphetid, also known as "The Gorre" or just "The G&D," is a trio of three successive model railroads.
Timesaver is a well-known [1] model railroad switching puzzle (U.K. English: shunting puzzle) created by John Allen. [2] It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations.
The SockelFlak was a gas-operated automatic cannon which fired a 37 mm (1.5 in) steel base fused explosive round with two brass driving bands. [4] The gun was mounted on a light three-legged pedestal mount with a seat for the gunner and could be broken down into four loads for short-range transport or carried in one piece on a cart by a two ...