It is news to me. What a pity. A nice guy and also a superb modeller. The great thing about dealing with him was that one could place total reliance on what he said (re deliveries, for example) and the quality of his products was as good as any, and better than most. alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.alanstepney.info Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway technical pages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pendragon" <idpriest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:26 PM Subject: [modeleng] Norman Spink Greetings all, I've not been around for a while so this might be old news but I heard the other day that Norman Spink had passed away, departed this station so to speak. Apparently Blackgates are taking his business over. Once again sorry if this is old news. Regards, IP MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.