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A couple of points to mention Mark - it has been less than 2 weeks since I passed on Neville Kent's announcement about his aquiering some of the Backwoods range and to the best of my knowledge the only 009 kits he is planning to put back into production are the Bagnall 0-4-0, Barclay 0-4-0 and Fowler 0-4-0 (not either of the crane kits).
I suspect that it is going to take a lot of work to get these back on the market. Neville has taken on the rights to produce some of the kits (those mentioned above and the range of Irish 12mm gauge kits) but does not have any stocks to sell. Before that happens he will need to sort out suppliers for the brass etches, castings (white metal and brass), motors, wheels, gears and boxes to put all the bits in. He will also need to produce instruction sheets and find time for packing bits in boxes. Neville has also mentioned a partial re-design so that the loco kits can utilise chassis from his existing N-Drive range. When you also bear in mind that Neville will also be trying to run N-Drive productions (building chassis, etc.) along with however many full-time jobs he needs to do to keep the Wolfe from the door we are probably looking at least 12 months down the line rather than 2 weeks...
Thanks Julien, I agree with your forecast of when Neville will get the