Nearholmer Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 There is a rather good 0 gauge model of an A&B 6W GWR milk tank for sale on ebay at present, livery a rather plain greenish-grey all over, with the company name in white along the centre-line of the tank barrel. Does anyone know whether this is the correct prototypical livery? Thanks Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 They did have wagons but no idea what colour they were. I've seen both grey and red models. Hornby made grey ones, that does seem to fit if the chassis on this one is GWR grey. https://hmrs.org.uk/photographs/aplin-barrett-14t-6wheel-tank-vac-brake-op-1951-f3r-u-frame-carries-gwr-1951-plate-and-gw-lettering-query-co-location.html Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2021 7 hours ago, Nearholmer said: There is a rather good 0 gauge model of an A&B 6W GWR milk tank for sale on ebay at present, livery a rather plain greenish-grey all over, with the company name in white along the centre-line of the tank barrel. Does anyone know whether this is the correct prototypical livery? Thanks Kevin I've found a reference to A&B milk tanks in May 1959 Railway Modeller. But the letter writer (a P.J. Page) is vague about the colour, as he writes. The usual colour of these vehicles, if it can be seen, would appear to battleship grey, but certain vehicles can still be seen in users' colours, e.g. Alpin & Barrett Ltd, and certain Southern Region Express Diary wagons, which are kept in superb condition. So it would appear that the A&B tanks were NOT battleship grey. It isn't clear what the colour was, but the implication is that they were clean! Perhaps if you buy it, the corrected information will be ferreted out! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) Doubtless, but I shalln’t buy it, because it has finescale wheels. I think it might be an assembled Slaters kit. Edited January 25, 2021 by Nearholmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 BTW, modern Hornby seem to agree with the greenish-grey livery I’ve noticed. It is different from the most usual 1950/60s scheme of aluminium colour, gone filthy, which I think is the ‘battleship grey’ that Mr Page refers to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 The notes I have mention that Aplin and Barrett had a dark grey livery with white lettering. Of course the only photo is B&W so we can only guess at the exact shade of grey. The shade used by Hornby seems to roughly match the the O Gauge one for sale on eBay. In the absence of other evidence, we could argue that no one will be able to prove them wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) Thanks. So, we can say that they were not far off "light admiralty grey", or "battleship grey". Its a really boring livery by comparison with most of the other not-aluminium ones, isnt it? Edited January 25, 2021 by Nearholmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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