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Thornycroft PB

The Fatadder

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While searching in a stock box at the weekend trying to find a couple more old private owner wagons I came across a Peco kit for a 1926 Thornycroft PB GW covered lorry.

 

Now even with any restrictions on replacing during the war, clearly a 20 year life is not going to happen in GW service. As such I've been thinking about an alternative use.

After thinking about which sort of operators typically use old life expired equipment, and narrowed it down to either farm use or a coal merchant, the latter looks like it will work well.

 

The kit has been built following the instructions, leaving off the cover. Once painted (which will be a heavily weathered EWS red) it will get a load of coal bags adding ready to leave the yard.

 

The driver has been modified, cutting one arm off at the elbow, then removing a 45 degree angle before regluing into position. the aim is to have the driver sat leaning against the lorry having a quick smoke before he needs to drive out on his deliveries.

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Adam

It's a surprisingly nice model that, but I do think that the chances of any open-cabbed (draughty as well as uncomfortable), petrol engined (expensive) lorry with solid tyres (boneshaking) surviving in any form of use post-war are slim in the extreme. A mid-'30s Bedford (itself, more than likely almost life-expired by '47) would be much, much more likely even for a coal merchant. I'd be surprised if there wasn't something of the sort in the background of pictures of Cheddar in your period?

 

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