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Over the last few weeks several people from our advertising department, to whom I showed the Heljan Class 57 model, commented (completely unprompted) on the primitive appearance of the front end below the cab. They further commented, again completely unprompted, that both the 47 and the 57 bogies would benefit from a prototypical cross-piece at the end. You'd think they'd be able to afford such a minor detail from the money they've saved by not advertising with us.
Several other people (coincidentally from the advertising department, but not the same people as before) commented, again completely unprompted, on how much better the latest Hornby Class 31 is in this respect. The highly sophisticated bogies are well detailed, the only omission being the end cross-piece, sensibly left off to reduce wear and tear on the tooling. The loco is easily the best model in the history of the world, raises the bar, cures cancer and we've never had it so good. It just shows what a company can achieve if they're willing to put time and effort into solidly researching their advertising budget.
The final word must go to Mrs Miggins, our friend, tea-lady and editor of our sister publication 'World of Kettles' just across the corridor. Mrs Miggins definitely "liked the green one bestest" once we'd assured her it had no connections with any of our rival magazines.