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 Posted - May 30 2010 : 8:49:48 PM
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I bought five of these aluminum passenger cars today. I'm 99% they're made by Grant Hobbycraft and Toys Limited. The guy at the store told me they're made by Kasiner and were released under various names over the years. I looked up Kasiner, and they don't look like mine. Can anyone shed some light on these? There doesn't seem to be any info on Grant on the net.
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Posted - May 30 2010 : 9:45:36 PM
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Hi Cheez. Can you show a picture of the bottoms. I think I know what they are. But, need to see bottoms.  Carl
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Posted - May 30 2010 : 9:56:48 PM
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The previous owner installed body-mounted knuckle couplers, but other than that I think they're original.
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Posted - May 30 2010 : 10:27:22 PM
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Whatever they are, nice find..
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Posted - May 30 2010 : 11:22:00 PM
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Hi Cheez. They are Mantua cars. The main body, ends, and trucks are Mantua. Someone changed the floors. They were probably trying to add more details to the bottom of the cars. Thats why they drilled so many holes. Nice Cars. Carl
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 07:26:35 AM
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Hey Cheez:
How long are those cars and are the Aluminium?
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 08:01:03 AM
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| may just be the photo but they look longer than my mantuas,are the end and door pieces plastic or diecast,ken
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 09:03:05 AM
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Nice cars, Cheez. This was the only diagram I could find in the miscellaneous section of HO Seeker.
http://www.hoseeker.org/hobbycraft/hobbycraftpassengerfloorplans.jpg
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 09:13:37 AM
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Nelson,
How in heavens name did you dind that!? It's incredibly useful!
Ken, your Mantua Psgr cars; Aluminium or plastic?
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 09:28:03 AM
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Shucks, I dunno... just talented, I guess. 
Larry has a button for Hobby Craft on the literature page, and that took me to the miscellaneous section. Cheez, if you join the Vintage HO group on Yahoo, you'll probably find out more info on those cars than you'll ever need. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vintageHO/
So how do you like that? Those coaches are pure Canuck! 
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 10:05:34 AM
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my mantua are aluminum bodies and chassis with plastic ends and doors,ken
my reason for challenging the fact that these are mantuas,is that they only made 1 set of canadian i can find in all the catalogs is via cn in all over blue
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 11:27:56 AM
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just found out that tyco produced aluminium cars late 50s till 1960 then switched to plastic,and canadian pacific was made for a set,even though made by mantua,ken
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 11:50:44 AM
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| my problem with them being mantua,is that i cannot find a baggage car like dacheezs,i have seen one with 6 windows at one end,door at other or a full baggage with 2 doors,ken
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 6:08:33 PM
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NICE CHEEZ!!
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 6:49:06 PM
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Thanks for all your input. I see there is still some mystery as to what they are, but I think I can answer my own question.
As I said in my first post I was pretty sure they were Hobbycraft. I was curious though as to whether or not another manufacturer released these cars. Since there doesn't seem to be an exact match on the net...
...out from under my layout comes this little gem
Geez...I should probably scan those for Larry over at Hoseeker huh? I think the original assembly instructions are in there as well...
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Posted - June 01 2010 : 12:27:39 AM
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quote:]
Geez...I should probably scan those for Larry over at Hoseeker huh? I think the original assembly instructions are in there as well...
Originally posted by DaCheez - May 31 2010 : 6:49:06 PM
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I was thinking that myself... he sure could use a better copy.
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