Hall Chassis Progress

 The final job on the body, before turning to the chassis, was the cab roof.

The first job on the chassis was the bogie. I was off to a flying start with a spare P4 part from a Martin Finney kit: Part 18, the fold-up etching for the basic frame. The remaining dozen parts used measurements of the Finney frame to supplement the few bogie measurements I did have. I incorporated my usual style of side control springing acting at axle level on the 3/32" brass tube mounting pillar.

Toynbee Hall now has a chassis with spacers temporarily soldered one side only, loosely assembled with jig axles, a trial cylinder assembly from a set of  Kemilway parts I bought in 1985 through the Scalefour Society, and a painted bogie with jury axles. I made up a cross-frame slidebar bracket from spare Finney Parts 39 laminated around a central core at the appropriate spacing. And to help with the illusion, I fettled the smokebox door rescued from my old Triang Albert Hall bought in 1967/8, added a nickel door dart and a front number plate for 5961.