For Sale: Full size Drawing Board approx. 50 “ wide X 36” deep with Plastic facing sheet and parallelogram drafting head plus scales on folding steel stand, could be used as a modelling board if folded flat. Cost me a lot of dosh, but £10 only. Could deliver within a 60 miles radius at cost of fuel? I also have a few new copies of Clanford’s A_Z of Model engines at £25 copy plus P&P at cost

John Goodall 01283 713715 or email john(at)johngoodall.me.uk in South Staffordshire.

Advance notice of the first BMFA auction

"The upcoming BMFA auction to be held for online and live bidding at the Buckminster National Flying Centre on Sunday 3rd November contains many interesting, scarce and interesting engines for tethered car and flying model enthusiasts alike, including a number of new 2.5cc twinshaft engines which are becoming harder to find now that Redfin production has unfortunately ceased. There are also many engines suitable for aircar and spur gear driven cars listed, including a large number of Oliver and related diesels. Go to http://www.nationalcentre.bmfa.org and select the Auctions heading, and then the Catalogues button to be able to view now all of the items with great photo images. The Register and Auction Login buttons will be live to use from 18th October, which will then enable you to see any pre-auction bids as they come in, or make your own early and live auction bids.

Postage to both UK and counties outside of the UK will be available.at very reasonable cost versus traditional auction house rates..A colour hard copy of the items is also available from the BMFA.

Happy viewing and bidding."

I’ve been through my spares boxes and have a few more items to sell which I’ve collected over the years but not likely to use. Contact Martin Coe email martinf2d(at)yahoo.co.uk See below for cars also for sale.

3 cut-offs. £40 including p&p within UK
2 Oliver style cut-offs. More bulky than the Redfin cutoffs.
1 miscellaneous cut-off.

Now Sold

4 runnable tyres. £35 including p&p within UK.~71mm diameter.

All new.

Wheel hubs and axle. £20 including p&p within UK.
Inner hub diameter is ~30mm.
Axle length ~100mm x 8mm diameter.

Another time in which I take up the topic of advertising for our hobby. At the GP Swiss I made another attempt to broadcast a live stream. At the 2023 European Championships in Basel, I tried this for the first time, which was the deciding factor to do it again. Whether it was a success and how many participants watched the stream, the traces we left on YouTube were worth the effort. With today's possibilities to create a live stream, it only takes a little courage and time to invest. I can highly recommend OBS (open broadcast software) as software for the stream. This application is free and there are many instructions for it on YouTube. I am also still learning, and luckily my sons Janis and Laurin are supporting me.

For Sale: This is probably the last of the Gary Barnes KG Enterprises Reproduction Railton/Arrow cars imported to the UK. They have been out of production for a while, so this represents a unique opportunity with a choice of this 'project' pan handle version or the complete and ready to run car below.

I have another project that I’m unlikely to finish! Gary Barnes Arrow Project £595 + PP

Existing engine holes suit Super Tigre 40 RV. 
Pan has a few holes that have been plugged.
Can supply more photos if needed.

Martin Coe email martinf2d(at)yahoo.co.uk

The Oliver model car bodies are available once more from me “Ian Harper”, a recent convert to Tether Cars, having purchased the original body patterns from Paul Ironmonger. I obtained a good deal from a local and friendly Black Country foundry enabling me to offer sets at a reasonable price bearing in mind recent cost increases in power and aluminium prices.

I intend to extend the range with a Vanwall and maybe one more in the near future preferably British, your advice is always welcome. Photos show the complete line up of castings and most of them built by John Goodall except the unfinished Bomb. Alfa Romeo, BRM (with re-contoured intake), Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes and Tiger 2.5 are all priced at £130 a set of top and bottom halves, with Bomb and Bottoms Up priced at £110 plus £10 shipping in UK only.

Please enquire actual shipping cost if outside the UK. Please contact me Ian Harper at Telephone 07840 389274, or email ianharper1961@gmail.com  Thank you.

For sale: A unique opportunity to purchase a 'unique motor'. In the mid 1980s, Gerald Smith, the renowned engine builder from Nuneaton built himself a series of one off radial engines, based on multiples of a unit on a common crankcase, all machined from the solid. Everything, including the magneto was built from scratch by Gerald. The Osprey 3 cylinder, Buzzard 5 cylinder and Kite, 7 cylinder. Apart from the Kite, these remained with the Smith family until the sale of his collection at Gildings in 2005. It was something of a surprise when the Buzzard turned up at the Buckminster swapmeet where we believed it to have been snapped up but that was not the case, hence it is now offered for sale. To our knowledge it was run once after its sale by the late John Scott Scott at Old Warden some eighteen years ago.

This unique Gerald Smith motor, built 1986/87 and the last motor he completed is for sale at £3950 (substantially less than it cost the second owner at Gildings.) 

Contact Paul Goodall phone 01283 713715 or email john@johngoodall.me.uk

Prompted by the advert for the V twins  below and the mention of building Morgans prompted Steve Betney to advertise the following from a previous Morgan project abandoned due to a change in the scale of the model being built. Almost one stop shopping?

For sale: Micro chain for Morgan, GN etc chain driven cars, from Steve Betney,

I have for sale a few unopened 5 metre packs of Renold O3B 5mm pitch micro chain, which is normally incredibly expensive. This is £90 per pack, which comes from the manufacturer supplied with just one connecting link, but I can supply a few further links at £5 each. This is beautifully made precision chain, a real piece of mechanical art to my eye anyway, and you can judge how diminutive it is from the photo of a short length alongside a 1p coin. O3B sprockets are fortunately fairly widely available by the way, and at quite reasonable cost. 

I also have available a set of 3 wheels for a scale Morgan car or other 3 wheeler car, sturdily made by Herbie's Wheels in Germany and with runnable 4" diameter rubber tyres. The rear drive tyre is a solid repro Meccano tyre, the front non-driven tyres are of a nice scale pattern in a slightly softer compound. Set of 3 for £100.

Postage extra at cost. contact Steve email:- stevebetney(at)aol.com

For Sale: Pair of V twins

Dean Clarke of New Zealand Vee Twin 5cc RRV engines, brand new in original boxes with papers etc, superbly made and finished. I have two, one glow at £425 and one diesel at £475. This will save you approximately £100 on import duty and shipping. Why not build a Morgan three wheeler like Steve Betney is for your next car? The current production of Dean's engine is FRV only and is listed at £431 for the glow version plus shipping and import duty of course. Mailing cost within UK only will  be £12. or  I can take to Buckminster in future.
Please ring John Goodall,  01283 713715.