SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY

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A 12.7 cm. gauge (5 in.) model of the Titfield Thunderbolt
SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY
realistically modelled with working details and spirit-fired engine, on a 100 cm. long presentation track

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Lot Essay

The Titfield Thunderbolt is one of the famous "Ealing Comedies", a series of films made just after the war by Michael Balcon's Ealing Studios. Its theme was the defiance by a group of villagers of the faceless bureaucrats bent on closing down their local railway line. The comedy drew on the English fondness for trains, as well as the commonplace Ealing assumption that small equals beautiful, big equals bad. It was released in 1953.

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