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This listing was originally prepared for the Scalefour Society website and was imported here when temporarily dropped from that site. The material is now back on the Society site but has been reformatted and some illustrations omitted, it is kept here in original form for anyone interested. The list include all the P4 articles I am aware of from 1966 to 1984. Anybody knowing of an article I have missed I would appreciate the advice. Of course there have been many more articles since, but those are outside the scope.

 Articles introducing P4 by the MRSG (Model Railway study Group)

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Model Railway News/Model Railways

MRN - August 1966 - PROTOFOUR A New Approach to Modelling Standards
MRN - September 1966 - A New Approach to Modelling Standards, concluded.
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1  January 1967 - a new scale modelling standard.
2  February 1967 - concerning wheels.
3  March 1967 - How tight the curve?
4  April 1967 - PROTOFOUR  4
5  May 1967 - PROTOFOUR  5
6  June 1967 - Tracklaying.
7  July 1967 - PROTOFOUR  7
8  August 1967 - Constructing Turnouts.
9  September 1967 - switches, crossings and junction layouts.
10  April 1968 - Templates.
11  November 1968 - Template jigs.
12  April 1969 - Templates and turnouts.
13  August 1970 - Track finish and operation and wiring of turnouts

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 MR - March 1972 - Carriage and Wagon Wheels, developments in Protofour
MR - April 1972 - Locomotive driving bogie and tender wheels
MR - September 1972 - Carriage and Wagon Suspension - fixed axleguard suspensions.
MR - March 1973 - Minimum Radius Curves
MR - February 1976 - Locomotive Suspension


North London Group: Heckmondwyke articles
Model Railways, Oct 1974 Planning  
Model Railways, Dec 1974 Laying Track Martin Goodall
Model Railways, Apr 1975 The electrics  Mike Sargent
Model Railways, Jun 1975 More electrics  Mike Sargent
Model Railways, Aug 1975 Wagons Ken Morgan
Model Railways, Oct 1975 Signalling Derek Smith
Railway Modeller, April 1976 Heckmondwyke made 'Railway of the Month'
Model Railways, Aug 1976 A revolutionary point motor - part 1 Ray Hammond
Model Railways, January 1977 Heckmondwyke Buildings, Part 1.
Model Railways, February 1977 Heckmondwyke Buildings, Part 2.
Railway Modeller,  1977 'Heckmondwyke featured.
Model Railways, March 1978 Wagons for Heckmondwyke Bob Essery
Model Railways, August 1979 Quo Vadis Heckmondwike, the lessons learned Bob Essery
North London Group:  Bodmin articles
Model Railway Constructor Building a Layout 
Issue Part Title Author
Jan '81 1. Research for the Layout - 1 Martin Goodall
Feb '81 2. Research for the Layout - 2 Martin Goodall
Mar '81 3. Research for the Layout - 3 Martin Goodall
Apr.'81 4. Research for the Layout - 4 Martin Goodall
May '81 5. Research for the Layout - 5 Martin Goodall
Jun '81 6. Research for the Layout - 6 Martin Goodall
Aug '81 7. The Civil Side - 1 Les Howard
Sep.'81 8. The Civil Side - 2 Les Howard
Oct.'81 9. The Trackwork - 1 Tony Wilkins
Nov' 81 10. The Trackwork - 2 Tony Wilkins
Dec' 81 11. The Trackwork - 3 Tony Wilkins
Jan '82 12. The Trackwork - 4 Tony Wilkins
Feb '82 13. Point Rodding - 1 Mike Sargent
Mar '82 14. Point Rodding - 2 Mike Sargent
Jun '82 15. Signalling - 1 Martin Goodall
July '82 16. Signalling - 2 Martin Goodall
Aug '82 17. Signalling - 3 Martin Goodall
Sep '82 18. Signalling - 4 Martin Goodall
Oct '82 19. Signalling - 5 Martin Goodall
Nov '82 20. Signalling - 6 Martin Goodall
Jan '83 21. Signalling - 7,  Block  Instruments Martin Goodall
Mar '83 22. Making the Signals - 1 R Hammond
Apr '83 23. Making the Signals - 2 R Hammond
May '83 24. Controls - 1,  Lever frame theory Mike Sargent
Jun '83 25. Controls - 2,  Lever frame practice Mike Sargent
Aug.'83 26. Controls - 3, Conditional link control Mike Sargent
Sep '83 27. Controls - 4, Further useful circuits Mike Sargent
Oct '83 28. Controls - 5, More useful circuits Mike Sargent
Nov '83 29. Controls - 6, Wiring the boards Mike Sargent
Jan '84 30. Structures for Bodmin - 1 John Hayes
Feb '84 31. Structures for Bodmin - 2 John Hayes
Apr '84 32. Structures for Bodmin - 3 John Hayes
Jun '84  - Bodmin Goods Shed, Scale drawing  
Oct '84 33. Operation Mike Sargent


Other P4 Magazine articles 
MRC Oct 1967 Sedgefield,   by  R R Barrington (So far as is known this was the first P$ layout ever featured in a magazine article.
MRN - May 1970 Making P4 Chaired Trackwork by D J Coleman
MRN - June 1970 Starting in Protofour (i) by R A Ganderton
MRN - July 1970 Starting in Protofour (ii) by R A Ganderton
MRN - September 1970 Starting in Protofour (iii) by R A Ganderton
Model Railways January 1973 T J Clarke, P4 Midland Compound
Model Railways January 1973 Scalethree standards, Stuart Hine (A P4 spinoff)
Model Railways May 1973 Romford Wheels to P4 standards, D A Ward
Model Railways May 1973 Protofour, fact not fiction, R J Essery, coaches by M Peascod. (beginnings of Heckmondwyke)
Model Railways, June 1973 Compensation, Ken Morgan (beginnings of Heckmondwyke)
Model Railways, December 1973 North London Group Railway, Ken York on planning a P4 layout (beginnings of Heckmondwyke)
Model Railways, January 1974 Towards better running bogie vehicles, Dick Ganderton
Model Railways, June 1974 Compensation, Locomotives, Ken Morgan
Model Railways, July 1974 Converting Hornby Dublo and Stephen Poole wheels to P4, Darrell Ward.
Model Railways, October 1974 Point Power for Pendlebury.  (Birmingham Area Group, Tony Darrah)
Model Railways, November 1974 Point Power for Pendlebury, part 2.  (Birmingham Area Group, Tony Darrah)
Model Railways, December 1974 Point Power for Pendlebury, concluding the story. (Birmingham Area Group, Tony Darrah)
Model Railways, January 1975 Introducing Scale 7, Ken Cottle, Dick Ganderton, Bernard Laycock  (Another spin off).
Model Railways, February 1976 When your track is in a twist use a Diplometer by Don Rowland
Model Railways, December 1976 Motorising the Airfix City of Truro. to P4 standard by Darrell Ward
Model Railways, March 1978 P4 locos by Arthur Mould
Railway Modeller, January 1978 'Pendlebury' featured as 'Railway of the Month'
Railway Modeller, March 1979 'Pendlebury again, won the RM cup for 'Railway of the Month 1978'
MRC, Nov/Dec. 1982 Preesgwyn, A P4 layout by Paul Gittins
MRC, Nov. 1982 Cast wagon kits built in P4 by Bob Smith and Tony Moore
MRC, Nov. 1983 Aston Rowant, The Scale-Four layout of the Western Model Railway Society

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