"I'm 93 in July, it's Almost Time To Retire Isn't It" - From Trains To Pedal Bins, Vin Wardman Calls Time on His Creations.
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00:00Well my name is Wyn Warden and I worked on the railway for 20 years on the track
00:05so pretty much got it in the story of the past like but I just started making
00:12different things as a hobby really but I think if I'd have tried to make it 20
00:18years ago I wouldn't have done it but I all of a sudden I couldn't make anything
00:23I see Concorde and I think well I can make that and looked at the Royal Train
00:29where I can make that and the biggest challenge when I saw Chitty Chitty Bang
00:33Bang that that was more complicated than any women I always tell everybody
00:39they're pedal bins and plywood now that every one of them that's a pedal bin
00:46that's a pedal bin every one of them look as far as you go where there's a
00:51round barrel that's a pedal bin I started making trains and I needed a
00:55boiler didn't I? Well there's that you go up to the tip and everybody is
01:00throwing a pedal bin away so you go and look for the biggest and best and start
01:05decorating it. There's a man down London way somewhere that makes he converts
01:12shoprider scooters into like lorries like that but whereas these cost about
01:212,000 quid I could build one for less than 200. The bigger ones here I made all
01:28little models like you saw in the cabinet I've probably been making these
01:32for the last 10 years yeah I made I made one lot and a bloke come along I wanted
01:42to buy them all and he took them all and then I was like a kid without toys so I'd
01:47start again didn't I? I decided this is the last now yeah
01:55no I I don't think I'm gonna make any more I'm 93 in July it's almost time to
02:02retire now