Dear All

For the last 10 years I have been compiling a Hornby-Dublo Technical Manual. This is for Hornby-Dublo trains made by Meccano Ltd from September 1938 to May 1965. The book is all done in Adobe products such as Photoshop and Indesign, and so the artwork is all to a very high standard. Dublo originally had 18 factory service diagrams, this has been expanded to 140 to include wiring diagrams, factory assembly drawings and maintenance diagrams. The book will be 304 pages, hard covered with stitched binding. There is a graphic of nearly every part made with a compendium parts list of most dimensions for them. Using Meccano production records the information is as accurate as possible and there is great detail of long forgotten information rediscovered. Publication date early 2020 with one distributor in the UK and one in Australia.

The book is a club production of the Hornby Railway Collectors Association of Australia Inc. All authors profit is to the HRCAA club and charities so is a not for profit publication. Search for ‘MKN digital train repairs’ for more information. The book is not on Marklin of course, however Marklin repairs are also a great interest of mine. In fact for a long time I was doing the Marklin repairs for All Aboard in Mittagong Australia. However their Marklin repairs are now done in-house.

The book is quite special in that it is a specific repair manual for a particular brand, and has from my experience never been undertaken before. The book has many pieces of rare Dublo artwork, all remastered and a great interest for anyone just interested in Dublo. A sample page of all bearings produced by Dublo is attached.

Regards
David

Edited by user 23 October 2019 03:43:43(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Looks like I will have to find more room in the library for this manual . I have all of the first edition Cavendish Books on Hornby , Meccano , Dinky toys etc with the idea that I may be the only idiot collector of the complete set in Australia . Do you have a rough figure on the sale pricing in 2020 please as I have a couple of other large price books to buy next year when they will be published .


Cheers Tom in OZ .

Dear All

Just an update on the book as many are still looking at the post. We put adverts in the December British Model Railway press and have had a good response. We are going to print a few more copies, so the final amount will now be 750. So far we have had 300 prepaid orders, so looks to be very popular. The people that have preordered the book have come from everywhere. Three UK rock stars have done so, one of which model railways layout was featured recently. Views on the the website (about 500 for the book) firstly come from the UK, then Australia and then the USA. We had no idea there was anyone in the USA interested in Hornby-Dublo having had stopped production 50 years ago. This does not consider Wrenn which continued to 1992, and was the old Dublo tooling. The book does have exploded diagrams for the non Dublo Wrenn locos such as the Royal Scot and Brighton Belle.
The book is now in RIPPed form at the printshop and we should have a pre-print copy very soon. The aim is to have the books starting to be posted in the 3rd week of February 2020.

Best regards
David

Congratulations! A specialist publication with a limited market that has sold out is not such a common thing!

Another reason for staying analogue!