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Classic Plant and Machinery

Post #1 by modelman093 » Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:33 pm

Have I missed an announcement ? Just been told that CPM has ceased publication.


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Post #2 by v1230nm » Mon Aug 03, 2020 10:12 pm

Unfortunately so. It is now included in Old Glory.
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Post #3 by Jeremy Rowland » Tue Aug 04, 2020 12:07 am

Yes indeed Angus the June 2020 issue was the last one; I peered inside the August copy of Old Glory magazine but left it on the shelf, what's left of Classic Plant is hardly worth the effort which is sad.
I have been informed that it may re-appear in the future if the advertising can be won back so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Post #4 by v1230nm » Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:32 pm

Funnily ennough, I did exactly the same as you did Jeremy..

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Post #5 by FOWLER MAN » Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:57 pm

Hi,
I wont miss it. :wave: To much misinformation for me. :roll: I believe this was volume one :?: :?: Which I still have. :thumbup:
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Post #6 by modelman093 » Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:24 am

I now realise that its demise was announced in PL's forward to the June issue. I'd skipped reading that page and gone straight into the "meat" of the mag. Thoroughly enjoyed the article about Dick Hampton's muck-shift for the Milford Haven branch line but I'm sure that while D8s certainly had fairly raucous donkey engines they weren't two stroke!
As a long time postal subscriber to CPM I find it strange that Kelsey have not see fit to write to subscribers re outstanding issues that have been paid for but wont be forthcoming - just don offer me Old Glory instead!


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Post #7 by Jeremy Rowland » Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:00 pm

modelman093 wrote:I now realise that its demise was announced in PL's forward to the June issue. I'd skipped reading that page and gone straight into the "meat" of the mag. Thoroughly enjoyed the article about Dick Hampton's muck-shift for the Milford Haven branch line but I'm sure that while D8s certainly had fairly raucous donkey engines they weren't two stroke!
As a long time postal subscriber to CPM I find it strange that Kelsey have not see fit to write to subscribers re outstanding issues that have been paid for but wont be forthcoming - just don offer me Old Glory instead!



Angus that is the sentiment which I have already heard from another subscriber who doesn't want Old Glory; I gave up my subs to CP&M some time back after they reduced the magazine size and started printing on recycled toilet paper which is crap (excuse the pun) sadly Kelsey have done the same thing with one of their other classic truck magazines, why don't these people listen to what the customer wants?

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Post #8 by essexpete » Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:10 am

I hardly ever buy mags as too mean but why did the main company go quarterly and set a different cycle to a sister mag?


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Post #9 by Jeremy Rowland » Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:00 pm

essexpete wrote:I hardly ever buy mags as too mean but why did the main company go quarterly and set a different cycle to a sister mag?



Pete, CP&M was monthly, heard today from others who have been landed with Old Glory instead of their subscription for CP&M, that's very naughty they should have been given the choice of a refund or Old Glory.

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Post #10 by modelman093 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 5:40 pm

Poor customer relations. I've cancelled my direct debit to both CPM and Tractor and Machinery.


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