Western Star Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 I am referring to the rectangular plates for (a) wagon numbers and (b) "G.W.R" ownership which were fitted to some new builds in the period circa 1895 to circa 1900. Another local S7 modeller and I are doing prototype research into the subject, accompanied by trials with etching of 7mm plates, for a couple of S7 layouts that are being built by us. To date we have searched through circa 30 books likely to feature photographs of wagons of the period and I have created a spreadsheet of the results. At this point I wish for some help from RMWeb-ers. Coopercraft (now Slaters) kits for GWR wagons include some mouldings of the rectangular plates in some of the kits, if you have any of these kits and can find the moulded plates then I shall be interested to know:- a) what kit in what scale?; b) what GWR wagon diagram?; c) what numbers are provided?. thank you, Graham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 In 4mm, CC include running number 1460 in their kit 1004W which my notes say is for an O5 wagon (lot 374, built 1902). There is one other number included in the kit, but I don't have the information to hand (the plate is probably in my spares box). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold wenlock Posted February 7, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2019 I'm afraid I can't offer any further useful information, but would like to say that if you do get some plates etched, I would love to be able to buy some:-) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 7, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2019 8 hours ago, Western Star said: I am referring to the rectangular plates for (a) wagon numbers and (b) "G.W.R" ownership which were fitted to some new builds in the period circa 1895 to circa 1900. c) what numbers are provided?. Later. As far as I can make out, they were standard on diagram O4 as built 1901-1904 (i.e. before the adoption of 25" G W lettering) - certainly I've seen quite a few Edwardian era photos where these wagons clearly have plates. As mentioned, in 4 mm scale it's the diagram O5 4-plank wagon that has the plates. The numbers are 10070, 1460, and 781. I chopped these around a bit to make 71460, good for a pre-O4 4-plank wagon, and 11070, a V6 iron mink of 1899 vintage - the latter by scraping off a 0 and making a 1 from microstrip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Holliday Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Michael Clark used to have etched GWR wagon number plates in his Masokits range, but he has dropped them, but he might be able to advise you regarding the V5, W1,2 & 5 that he did. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 7, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2019 Going on about the Coopercraft plates a bit more, the leading 7 is quite useful as the 70xxx - 74xxx range of wagon numbers coincided with the "plate" period; it's unfortunate that numbers in the 78xxx range are just a bit too late. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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