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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
YMR Gallery MR News Booking Office Mail Train Goods Arrival Exhibitions Catchpol's Workshop A Prototype for Everything Continuous Change Zero/1 Ã
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From the Footplate: When I first joined the magazine I was rather taken back by the lead time accompanying any issue. For example this issue (February) was written in mid-December, even the March issue is well underway. So the posed question of NEWS is rather a misnomer in as much as it's rather out of date by the time it's published! As the editorial is the last item to be written it's possible to include notes of forthcoming news. At the recent Manchester Exhibition, Slater's (Plastikard) handed me a note which, it is hoped, will clear up any confusion and/or rumours that have come about by recent events at the Matlock Bath Museum (featured in MR June 1984). Slaters (Plastikard) Ltd. would like it to be known that under no circumstances are their present business transactions under threat of liquidation, but it is fact that the Midland Railway Education Society Ltd., who were the owners of the 7mm Fine Scale MR layout situated in Matlock, Bath, that are in receivership. It is sad to report that this fine example of 7mm scale fully sceniced modelling has been partially broken up and lost to future generations because of the refusal of Derbyshire County Council, the new owners, to pay the landlord the rent on the Museum building, with the nett result that the Council have been evicted and told to remove their property forthwith. Slaters (Plastikard) have now taken over the lease of the museum building and have made an offer to Derbyshire CC to save the Millers Dale diorama. They are also moving some of their manufacturing machinery into the remainder of the building to help with increased production. Also seen at the MMRS show was Sidney Weighall who is fast becoming an exhibition celebrity ÃÃ
