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Thoughts of Chairman Mel Ay-up Lad! (Translation: Yorkshire term of greeting) Even though we haven’t produced our ‘Little Red Book for Yorkshire Home Rule’ (yet!) we have decided, here at Knightwing, to try to indulge in some little light-hearted thoughts (or are they?). While most model railway ‘big names’ are rushing headlong into decimating our model railway manufacturing industry with their endless campaign to produce their wares in the Far East, we are ‘staying put’ producing in Yorkshire and in Denmark. The Danes are very good colleagues and understand our Yorkshire dry humour (we think) or they are too polite to tell us otherwise. While being able to appreciate many excellent models coming out of the Far East we look at what has happened to the British car, motorbike and many more industries to realize we can’t outsource all our manufacturing to the Far East without losing many jobs and control of our long term interests. We know many smaller firms who are of the same mind as ourselves and we need to support each other in maintaining our identity so we don’t end up without any UK based manufacturing. We know this country has some of the finest craftsmen in the world and in this ‘credit crunch’ mess we are in we need to back our country and our workforce to the hilt. This approach to manufacturing would not be tolerated in France or Germany to the extent we have done. So even if you don’t buy Knightwing products its not a problem, but try to purchase as much as you can from other British manufacturers. Its not just being patriotic, its in the long term interest of all us. While many of you will no doubt know of the Rhubarb Express which ran to the Continent from Leeds with Yorkshire’s own delicacy of rhubarb, our Lancashire friends have informed us their Black Pudding Mines are being opened up again. How long before new sidings are laid into these mines, new rolling stock purchased for distribution and new models introduced to model this new traffic flow from certain well known model companies? Knightwing may introduce models of the Black Puddings and we would appreciate any photographs of this rare species of animal in its natural surroundings. Chairman Mel July 2009 PS If you have any thoughts or ideas you would like to share with us send them to mel@knightwing.co.uk and we will try to include some of them on this page. (Don’t worry your identities WILL be concealed!) PPS Please note this page was not produced in the firm’s time (well, that’s what they think). Those who contributed to the page were not suffering from the influence of alcohol either but may have been suffering from all the waffle put out by some of the other model railway manufacturers who seem to believe their own publicity departments especially where delivery dates and stock availability seem to have been guestimated after a long 'happy hour' or hours at the local wine bar. |
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on all orders over £20.00 despatched to UK addresses. This Special Promotional Offer is for a limited time only! As the manufacturer of the Knightwing range of products we usually have all our kits displayed ready to despatch within 2-3 days. With this in mind we can give you the security and confidence you can get the kits you order when you require them by dealing direct with the manufacturer. Please note the standard £2.00 postal charge displayed on your invoice will not be charged during the time of this promotional offer on all orders received over £20.00. New Item (well sort of) PM114A Platform Extension Pack £9.75 Well, our customers do matter so having received a number of calls for extension lengths of platforms for our PM114 Stattion Halt Set, here they are! Ordering In addition to placing orders on-line you can also place an order over the phone using your Credit or Debit Card on 01484 537191. You can phone this number during the day, evenings or weekends to place an order or to get information about products from a real live person who actually knows something about the products! And we still accept orders by post, paid for by cheque or by postal order made payable to Knightwing! If ordering by post in the UK, please add £2.00 for post and packing this means £2.00 per order, not per item! Please remember we do not have a minimum order. This means you can order just one item from us(although 100 would be better - only joking) Please note all sales from our website will be appear on your bank/credit card statement as being paid to Something Wicked. International Orders We are more than happy to ship our products anywhere in the world! Postage will be charged at cost per order. NEWS While 2009 has been a most difficult year in many ways, Knightwing has had a successful year thanks to "YOU" our customers and we can't thank you enough. New ideas and new products are being developed, but not as fast as we would like. We have had a lot of support from firms in getting plans for new products and hopefully some of these will bare fruit in the future. Some of our products have been deleted from our range while others have been out of stock far longer than we hoped. Bear with us while we try to improve. PICK & MIX If in any of our White Metal kits there are items in those kits where you want more than 2/3 kits (ie where there are just one or two items, but you require 8 or 9 or whatever) we will make up special packs for you of just the item you want. Prices will vary according to the item, but we will keep the prices sensible. Please see our homepage for more details. Loco 1 Sales of this kit have shot up since the conversion article in the Railway Modeller, thanks Peco its nice to see a British firm supporting British Companies. Its something we all should be doing. This kit is a very versatile one and represents a great first time loco kit in its simple construction as an industrial diesel shunter or first step in conversion work. Mel converted one into a dummy and slave like the old hump shunters at Sheffield Tinsley. Hard to tell what he uses it for, but it does look good even if its a bit over the top for his layout. We hope to release some instructions for this kit under the Combi-kit theme in the future. Are you the one? Anybody out there who has won the Lottery (kidding I think) who wants to develop new ideas in the railway model market? There must be someone who feels the same as we do and as we have not the time or the finances to do it all on our own, we need some help to push on with our approach to the hobby in developing for the future. Sometimes we think we need a kick up the rear in order to take on a more business-like approach to our products while keeping our very British nature. We don't always get it right, but we try. Maybe you are the person we need to take us to the next level? What form this will take is very open, but it you think you could help us in this development please contact us. You cannot be serious! The latest cynical, light-hearted, but somewhat serious observations on our Railway Modeling hobby by Yorkshireman Chairman Mel, taken from his 'Little Red Book', can be now be found on our website, just Click on the 'Thoughts of Chairman Mel' link in our Pages Menu. |
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