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The 42ft Carriages of Richard Bore.

 

Based on meticulous research, mainly into LNWR original company documents, Richard Ball has produced a highly detailed history of these distinctive carriages, as they were originally built on F W Webb’s radial underframes, and as in many cases subsequently rebuilt to run on bogies.

 

Almost 50 photographs are included, many of them from the Society’s collection, with company diagrams and drawings of most of the types described. Because of the paucity of official carriage drawings from this period, many of them have been specially produced for the book by Peter Chatham. The side and end views are reproduced at a scale of 6mm to 1 foot, which is as large as allows the side views to be fitted across a page.

 

The book, which has over 50 pages, is laid out in A4 landscape format and wire bound so as to permit it to open flat and make the drawings readily visible. The colour covers are gloss laminated 350gsm card, with the inside pages printed on 115gsm glossy art paper.

 

This publication is attractively priced at £15 including postage and packaging within the UK. Overseas members please contact for postage quotation.

 

Copies can be obtained from the Sales Officer by sending a cheque made out to ‘LNWR Society’ to: Sales Officer, 58 Shire Road, Corby, NN17 2HN.

 

You can also call 01536 681496 and make card payments over the telephone.

 

Alternatively you can send £15 via Paypal to treasurer@lnwrs.org.uk, or Bank transfer £15 to ACC:90162272 and SC:20 57 40.  PLEASE state 42FT Bore Carriages and your name and address on the transfer.

 

**LNWR Society Members Please note that you can obtain a copy at a discounted rate (Contact Chairman or Sales Officer) and copies will be available at the AGM on June 8th and also at the Open Day at Kidderminster.**

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2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Looks good - going above and beyond Millard and Tattersall's LNWR Non-Corridor Carriages? I really must get round to joining the Society...

 

Yes - Philip Millard has commented that: this book fills an important gap in the history of LNWR Carriages.

 

You can now join the society online at:

http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/Membership/membership.php

 

If you join before you buy a copy, then you can have it at the members rate. 

 

David, Chairman LNWRS. 

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BOOK REVIEW: The LNWR 42ft Carriages of Richard Bore by Richard Ball and Peter Chatham

 

Published by the LNWR Society. ISBN 978-0-9570158-3-8. Price £15.00

 

This scholarly book fills an important gap in the published history of LNWR coaches, that is the 111 carriages built between 1882-1885 to the designs of Richard Bore, who had been carriage superintendent of the company since 1860.  The first 42-footers were Sleeping Saloons, but these were followed by set trains for specific mainline services, including London to Liverpool and Manchester, the Irish Mail, and then London to Birmingham (but not the West Coast Joint Stock).  These vehicles laid the foundations for the numerous 42ft 0in coaches built by Park, of which the earliest made use of Webb's radial underframe.

 

The book describes all these vehicles in meticulous detail, with numerous illustrations and drawings/diagrams which have been specially prepared by Peter Chatham as few originals now survive. In parentheses, all the pre-1885 drawings and records were disposed of by the LMS as salvage in WW2.  So we are fortunate that so much has survived. Sources consulted include the Minute books, Diagram Books and other primary and secondary sources.  It should perhaps be mentioned that a good deal of the numbering information comes from the records of the late Richard Casserley who, together with your reviewer, copied the 1895 Wolverton stock register by hand in the 1970s.

 

I find it impossible to criticise any aspect of the book, which is a credit to its authors and to the Society.  Although a somewhat specialised subject, anyone with an interest in the LNWR will find much of interest in this book, which is recommended without reservation.  It will make a treasured addition to my library.

 

Philip A. Millard

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