Bought a job lots of O gauge stuff a while ago at an auction that included a battery loco - being O gauge I was after the chassis - after stripping away the bespoke made body shell I was left with this.
It wouldn't run but after some tweaking of the brass pick ups I got it running intermittently - the challenge was the brass pick ups weren't constantly in contact with where they needed to be - more tweaking later it was getting better but then one of the brass pick ups snapped as i'd 'tweaked it' too much I think.
Can anyone Id what motor its from (I'm guessing vintage Hornby???) or even older - (looks like it was converted from rail to batter operation at some point) - once i know that I can try and source some spare pick ups - or at least some brass sheet of the right thickness to make my own I guess