Robert Hendry Card Kits

Robert Hendry

Elena and Robert Hendry have produced the Elro range of card kits of a number of tramway and railway subjects in 0 and 00 (or H0 for the American types). The most interesting is his series of Manx railways, an area for which Robert Hendry and his father are well known authors. Kit prices are £7.95 or £12.95 according to size and scale. These are examples from the range:-

• Isle of Man
  
  • Douglas Corporation Cable Car 79-82 series
    
  • MER 1895 unglazed saloon 11 or 13 in Douglas & Laxey teak and blue livery
    
  • MER Cattle Tram 12
    
  • Manx Electric crossbench car 15 or 17 1960s red livery
    
  • Manx Electric Winter Saloon 19 red livery
    
  • Manx Electric Winter Saloon 20 1904-1939 livery
    
  • Manx Electric Winter Saloon 22 green livery
    
  • MER electric loco 23
    
  • MER electric loco 23, steeple cab version, includes wagons 9 & 10
    
  • MER "Dreadnought" stone wagons (kit makes two wagons)
    
  • MER freight car 26
    
  • MER 'Paddlebox' car 27 green livery
    
  • MER open trailer 49 or 50 red, teak and white livery
    
  • MER open trailer 50 green livery
    
  • MER open trailer 51 or 53 red and teak livery
    
  • MER trailer flat 52 & weedkiller wagon (kit makes two vehicles)
    
  • MER Royal trailer car 59
    
  • MER van 3 and wagons 7 & 8 (kit makes three vehicles)
    
  • Isle of Man Railway wagons K7, M40 & M41 (kit makes three wagons)
    

• British Types
  
  • Glasgow single-deck car 672, the "But and Ben" car
    
  • Ex-Glasgow "But and Ben" car grounded for use scenically as a shelter etc. Makes one large or two small buildings
    
  • Glasgow "But and Ben" car as converted to Mains Department test car 3
    
  • Glasgow stone and sett car (3-10), rebuilt from "But and Ben" cars.
    
  • Glasgow single-deck car 1089
    
  • Llandudno & Colwyn Bay car 17 or 18
    
  • London Feltham car (London Transport livery)
    
  • Feltham car (Leeds livery)
    

• American Types
  
  • North Shore Line electric loco 455, black livery
    
  • North Shore Line electric loco 456, green livery
    
  • North Shore Line Jewett monitor roof power car No 131 of 1907
    
  • Chicago Aurora & Elgin Jewett monitor roof power car No 130 of 1907
    
  • Chicago Aurora & Elgin box motor car No 7
    
  • Monitor roof Jewett monitor roof power car of 1907 in traction orange without fleet name
    
  • Illinois Traction Interurban Reefer car No 1806 of 1907
    

Obtaining Hendry kits

Hendry tram kits are sold on eBay.

Enquiries to:-

Robert Hendry

6 Ash Grove,

Ramsey,

Isle of Man,

IM8 3HT.

Email: elrokits@btinternet.com

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