“The Fantasy Factory from Piacenza”, designed by Sr Servetti and featured on page 54 of May 1967 MM. This is an excellent model made to Ken’s usual high standard.

Briefly.... a grab lowers a boiler into a truck, which then moves along rails to a traverser which transports the truck to the other side of the factory, from where the truck then reverses down a second parallel set of rails to a pre-determined point below the overhead gantry, which has meanwhile traversed across the roofed part of the model, whereupon the grab is lowered, picks up the boiler and then returns across the factory, during which time the truck retraces its route in the reverse direction ready to receive the boiler again, at which time the sequence is repeated.