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O have one of the planes you are talking about from HF about 4 years ago. It is called a Windsors something or other plane.
Anyway, what I bought it for the purpose of converting to a scrub plane as per this Paul Sellers video.
or go to youtube and search for “sellers scrub plane”.
Don’t know how well it would work as a #4, I suspect not very good. As a scrub plane it works good. Oh, my hand is too big for the handle, I suppose many Chinese hands are smaller than mine, so I rasped off most of the top horn.
Someone else on here has done the same thing as I and he liked it as a scrub plane too.
In case you are not up on what a scrub plane is for, it hogs off lots of wood real fast to either make a board much thinner or take the warp out of it. Then the ripples are removed with a #4.
Good luck.