Opelsi Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 6 hours ago, Compound2632 said: What are the shiny metal strips intended to represent? 4 handles (Well there are presumable 2 on each side)! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 12, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12, 2021 3 hours ago, Opelsi said: 4 handles (Well there are presumable 2 on each side)! Not fork 'andles? Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Just need a Cunningham's picalilli tanker with a caution hazardous materials label on to go with it. The only stuff that you will never get out of the kitchen top. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2021 11 hours ago, cheesysmith said: Just need a Cunningham's picalilli tanker with a caution hazardous materials label on to go with it. The only stuff that you will never get out of the kitchen top. In my gas board days I worked in Cunninghams on Queens Road a few times, you should see what the preparation room does to iron pipework! The ladies who sat in front of the big blue vinegar vats peeling the pickled onions told me they never had trouble finding a seat on their own on the bus home. Mike 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Jackson Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 I've ordered mine. MAMILs (including me) can also get a rather smart cycling jersey too https://www.foska.com/hendersons-cycling-jersey-new.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) Ey Up! Where's me pie? What a load of balls.... https://railsofsheffield.com/products/44045/Dapol-4d-joes-21-oo-gauge-uncle-joe-s-mint-balls-6-wheel-tank-wagon Wrong side of Pennines though.... Edited April 27, 2021 by Steamport Southport 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2021 Presumably the mint balls are hard enough and small enough to flow in a quasi-liquid manner? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted April 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2021 I thought we were talking "fries" then! Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted May 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 1, 2021 Well, Rails has taken payment and today I received confirmation of shipment. Should be here next Tuesday! Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 1, 2021 1 hour ago, SHMD said: Well, Rails has taken payment and today I received confirmation of shipment. Should be here next Tuesday! Kev. Prepare your taste buds! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted May 4, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2021 It's arrived! . . . and in very good packaging too. (I'm not sure what the "Authentic" on the box is referring to!) The Van is very free running - as I have just found out that my desk is not level - hence the 50p! Tomorrow, it will be "poor mans pizza" for breakfast. (Cheese on toast with finely chopped onions, tomatoes and anything else lying around (peppers, mushroom, chillies, etc) with, you guessed it, a splash of Hendo's on top.) I'm quite pleased. Kev. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 4, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2021 Reminds me of this Whitbread Trophy Bitter ads from the ‘70s. Cheers Darius 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2021 I see they're doing a match wagon now - and no, it's not to go with the forthcoming Oxford Cowans Sheldon steam crane! https://railsofsheffield.com/products/44475/Dapol-4f-glory-21-oo-gauge-england-s-glory-matches-moreland-gloucester-blue-wagon Now Moreland actually had at least one rather fancily-painted 10 ton coal wagon, built by the Gloucester RC&W Co. in 1906, which was done many years ago by Mainline on their fictitious 10 ft wheelbase steel-framed wagon and more recently and credibly by Hornby on their 6-plank wagon: But a match-box wagon... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 England's Glory. Made in Sweden.... 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted May 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2021 Needs weathering. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2021 Ah, so at least if Bachmann or Oxford applied this livery to their RCH 12 ton wagon, they'd have a prototype! I don't think the surfaces can have been very well-prepared when someone had fun doing that. Where and when? Did they do both sides? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted May 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Ah, so at least if Bachmann or Oxford applied this livery to their RCH 12 ton wagon, they'd have a prototype! I don't think the surfaces can have been very well-prepared when someone had fun doing that. Where and when? Did they do both sides? In 2008, there were three wagons in faded historic liveries, Shrewsbury Co-op, Lilleshall, and England's Glory, at the closed heritage centre at Waterside in Ayrshire. I don't know who originally painted them in these liveries, but I recall when I posted photos on Flickr someone wanted to know how they had ended up in Scotland, so I assume they were originally painted at a heritage railway somewhere in England which later sold them on. I do not know what subsequently became of these wagons, whether they were scrapped or whether restoration was eventually taken on by the adjacent Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group. Edited May 19, 2021 by cessna152towser added photos 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2021 22 minutes ago, cessna152towser said: In 2008, there were three wagons in faded historic liveries, Shrewsbury Co-op, Lilleshall, and England's Glory, at the closed heritage centre at Waterside in Ayrshire. I don't know who originally painted them in these liveries, but I recall when I posted photos on Flickr someone wanted to know how they had ended up in Scotland, so I assume they were originally painted at a heritage railway somewhere in England which later sold them on. I do not know what subsequently became of these wagons, whether they were scrapped or whether restoration was eventually taken on by the adjacent Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group. Ha! I found those photos on Flickr and the comment you mention - I read it as the person in question being under the illusion that they were genuine PO wagon livery survivals! I don't find them listed on the ARPG's website - they would require considerable effort (to say nothing of a lot of new timber) to make them presentable in any guise; effort which clearly that group is better directing in other directions. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 You can now buy the stuff by the tanker load. https://railsofsheffield.com/products/45572/Dapol-4d-hendos-tank-oo-gauge-henderson-s-relish-strong-northern-6-wheel-tank-wagon Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted July 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2021 Well, seeing that this tank wagon comes with its' own little bottle of "weathering" solution, I will be ordering one pronto. Thanks for the heads up. Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Got an email about it this morning. I left it for a bit thinking they'll post it themselves. Might be busy with those SECR things. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 On 18/05/2021 at 00:25, Steamport Southport said: England's Glory. Made in Sweden.... The Swedish word for matches is tändstickor, tänd meaning to set on fire. I remember the brand illustrated was used in Wales as a synonym for matches, and they seemed rather more common there than the Swan Vestas that English smokers were buying. Welsh nationalists used to go into tobacconists' shops and ask for "A box of England's Glory" in a very sarcastic tone of voice! It was a rather poor marketing decision to use England in the brand name of a product you hoped to sell throughout the UK - even if they did plaster the box with Union Jacks. In England matches were sometimes called Lucifers, as they were thought by some to be the invention of the Devil. But Lucifer (appropriately meaning light-bringer) was a Roman name for the planet Venus which heralds the dawn, also known in Greek as Phosphoros, which just happens to be what the red bit at the end of the match was made of. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted August 13, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 13, 2021 It looks like this has been a good marketing exercise for Henderson's Relish. I'd finished the little bottle which came with the Henderson's Relish box van and part way through the one which came with the 6-wheel tanker. I had never seen or heard of Henderson's Relish before but spotted it on sale this morning in my local Morrison's here in Scotland. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2021 I see the salt wagon has come back around as a travel sweets wagon. Really, one wants the roof to be hinged so the sweets can be kept in the wagon... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishdurham Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Simpkins wagon arrived today with a nice tin of travel sweets. Very nice wagon. Don't think the sweets will last long enough to travel in the wagon. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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