Richard is listed as being an officer of seven companies including Hattons Model Railways Limited No 0531251 and The Hatton Model Railway Company Limited, Reg no 11057887., three of the seven are now dissolved, whilst the two remaining companies are as follows The Company has two Directors listed, Mr Richard John Davies Born 1978 and Miss Elaine Christine Hatton born September 1962. This company is showing as active and is the holding company for the group as confirmed by the Annual Report filed on. This entity was incorporated on to which Richard was appointed the same day, whilst Christine was appointed a Director on. The Company was incorporated on and from is wholly owned by The Hatton Model Railway Company Limited, Reg no 11057887. With retail the way it is, the previous option of selling the business probably doesn't exist anymore.Ĭompanies House listing shows the company Hattons Model Railways Limited Registration No 0531251 which is the trading entity which appears to operate the website we all have purchased from and therefore the entity which is due to close. It would have been coming to the time when she and her husband would be looking to pass the business to the next generation is there one and, if so, are they interested? It happens to a lot of family businesses, after a couple of generations it has either been divided up into small shareholdings and the shareholders disagree on a way forward or the third or fourth generation are just not interested. However to me the more salient point was the age of Christine Hatton, now 61. I would never wish to defend the Telegraph in a million years but the article does mention Brexit. Each may well fail to understand the other whilst perhaps not recognise that their own approach might be considered potentially obsessive by others. It's a similar disparity to model enthusiast A with his mint unrun 1962 Hornby Dublo loco in original packing never removed from the box versus model enthusiast B with his Accurascale Class 37 P4 conversion fully weathered, windows replaced with Laserglaze because the RTR product doesn't quite cut it, brake chains replaced with finer scale, speaker replaced, decoder reblown with XYZ file because the supplied one is clearly remiss, still a bit bothered that the grille tumblehome doesn't look quite right at some angles, and unhappy because having hauled 70 HAA wagons for four hours nonstop the motor looks to have failed. There are record collectors who want mint copies of the first pressing that they will never play but want to 'own' whilst others will seek out audiophile editions or rated quality pressings, because it has been mastered and cut in a certain way and once it has been professionally cleaned on their £3000 Moth cleaner they will sit dead centre in their audio prepared listening room dead centre of the stereo mix listening on their £20000 valve deck with £5000 cartridge. In the same way that there are the 'operating' tribes that decry the 'collecting' tribes in model railways, vinyl collecting is a broad church. However, I wonder if being described as a collector is seen as less worthy than being called a modeller.īut even here the comparison with vinyl is closer than you might think. Railway modelling is more about creating and using, although for some collecting is a major part of the hobby. Finding, researching, buying, displaying, possibly even bragging. Collecting is, I believe, a pastime in itself. I think the relevant word here is collections.
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