Red Wagons - Experimental Archaeology - update
EDIT - before getting excited about this 'new evidence', please see the reply from K14 at Didcot GWS, below. The 'red wagon' mystery continues....
This is just a brief addition, to draw attention to new evidence regarding 'red' GWR wagons. I am grateful to Miss Prism, who referred to it in Mikkel's Pre-Grouping thread.
This new information adds further support to one of the conclusions, in the discussion following my previous blog entry, that red lead may have started to be used on the GWR as a preservative on iron wagons and then continued as a 'tradition' on later stock. It also indicates that the use of red extended to the underframes of wagons.
I hope that analysis of the paint is to be carried out (or in progress), to confirm the composition and hopefully to indicate whether these new finds are indeed the original paint applied to this wagon.
Mike
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