What is British G Scale

[musket the dog]

It would not have surprised me, if they had done it the other way round...

Metric threads, but imperial heads, to save the cost of changing tools!

I have worked on an Pre-war MG engine with exactly that set up, but with Whitworth heads. The French company Hotchkiss moved their engine factory to Coventry during the first world war and when it was taken over by Morris some years afterwards it was much easier to have hybrid bolts made up than it was to change all the machine tooling and to re-equip all the technicians (and mechanics up and down the country) with Metric tools. I learnt that interesting bit of history when I managed to shear one and had to make a matching replacement up from scratch

 

[Technocrat]

I understand that when metric started coming in the old British Leyland compromised by continuing with Imperial threads and metric heads!

Edited 10:08 to correct mistype.

OMG!
I am glad my Austin Healy is pre-Leyland

 

[Technocrat]

Nothing that BL did would have surprised me - except if they had survived

They took some classic brands and trashed them

Too true

 

[JimmyB]

OMG!
I am glad my Austin Healy is pre-Leyland

Yes worse than BL, was BMC, which the Healy was built under

 

[Northsider]

I had a drophead TR7; the brake lines had a metric union on one end and an imperial one on the other. And a Rover 200 with a CD player...and a cassette rack. Go figure.

 

[dunnyrail]

Many years ago I met someone on a sponsored degree study placement at Warwick University who's project was the design, development and construction of a concrete canoe. His sponsor..........British Leyland. I kid ye not. Max

Probably good tax breaks on sponsoring design concepts, the stupider they are the better the breaks?

 

[Technocrat]

Yes worse than BL, was BMC, which the Healy was built under

Touche'

 

[Technocrat]

Probably good tax breaks on sponsoring design concepts, the stupider they are the better the breaks?

That sounds like something the money wasters in Washington would do.

 

[dunnyrail]

That sounds like something the money wasters in Washington would do.

Probably already do, way of life in uk and eu.

 

[ge_rik]

Just to throw a spanner in the proverbial - how about this for the ultimate in "G Scale" British Railways?

Rik

 

[playmofire]

I spy some heavily modified Playmobil there and an LGB Toy Train box van with UK style roof.

 

[Technocrat]

Just to throw a spanner in the proverbial - how about this for the ultimate in "G Scale" British Railways?

Rik

Nice!

 

[JimmyB]

Just to throw a spanner in the proverbial - how about this for the ultimate in "G Scale" British Railways?

Rik

Though no dis-credit to the hard work gone into this, but surely this is Gauge 1 on G45 track, or am I just being pedantic.

 

[David1226]

Though no dis-credit to the hard work gone into this, but surely this is Gauge 1 on G45 track, or am I just being pedantic.

In the introduction it does say 'what if British Rail had gone for metre gauge?'. It is definitely what it says on the tin 'BR G Scale Narrow Gauge'.

David

 

[Rhinochugger]

I do rather like a bit of well-executed tounge-in-cheek

 

[Software Tools]

Isn't LGB = Lehman Garten Bahn? (forgive my ignorance).

Lehmann Gross Bahn -> literally Lehmann Big Train

 

[Rhinochugger]

Lehmann Gross Bahn -> literally Lehmann Big Train

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Yes, originally introduced as K scale.

 

[Technocrat]

Yes, although they added to the confusion by some of their early advertising that emphasized the "Garten" aspect.

 

[Gavin Sowry]

I do rather like a bit of well-executed tounge-in-cheek

Washed down, of course, with a nice cold beer!