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7S-018-004W L & SWR B4 0-4-0T BR EARLY CREST 30089 Weathered

Dapol

£280

Features of the B4 includes: Slide in PCB – With space for 2 x sugar cube speakers and a 21 pin decoder socket Removable cab roof held in place with magnets to allow easy crew insertion Highly detailed cab interior with fire box glow Highly detailed body with many separately added parts Five pole skew wound motor driving the rear wheels Fully compensated die-cast chassis to give excellent running capabilities All wheel pick up Most derivatives covered, the tooling will allow for four cab types, two different boilers, two forms of chimney as well as other prototypical features catered for such

Dapol's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as DAPOL LIMITED, number 01694602. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.