I was very happy to see that Dapol will provide the chassis without the body. this is great for the hobby, allowing scratch-builders to save a few quid.
The item arrived promptly.
For running, however... It is noisy for a new loco, and it has some strange issue with starting. I have had it on a layout twice, and both times I could not get it to start, put another loco on the track to test there was power, and away it went. After that it would start and stop fine, and seemed to ignore issues with the track better than most locos - no jerkiness, no stopping when it should not.

Infuriating to have to buy a chassis when all I wanted was two bogies which are unavailable!