eetype3 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Looks good Jim, that was quick. Many memories of driving them, just glad to get an Ital as a replacment, big improvment. Merf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 29, 2012 There were definitely yellow HA vans at Cardiff in 1972 as I took a 'test' in one for my BR Domestic Licence - but didn't bother to record the reg number even for such a momentous event as that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetype3 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Cheers Merf! I don't hang about... It's the Trackside model btw, with the track narrowed by cutting the 'brake drums' in half and locking them on the axles with slow-set thick cyano to lose the unlikely negative camber on the rear axle. The rest's just Phoenix Precision pre-84 Warning Panel Yellow, homebrew decals, PP matt enamel varnish and detail painting, plus TPM etched stainless mirrors & wipers. She'll do. Got two RTI resin crewbus bodies in stock now, but can't promise they'll appear here quite as quickly! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 (edited) Since I started this thread some 54 pages ago, I don't know whether we've had this one before or not, but it's nice nonetheless. http://www.flickr.co...71476/lightbox/ A yellow liveried TK flatbed, registration 134 ELR (London, c. '62) - note the extra light - and what I presume is a Bedford HA in green registration CDN 761C, so York registered in '65, both at Peterborough. A Leyland at Templecombe: http://www.flickr.co...71476/lightbox/ And what looks like a trailer based mobile something or other at Norwich: http://www.flickr.co...71476/lightbox/ Adam Edited October 30, 2012 by Adam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinLoco Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Nice find there, I believe the van is a Ford Anglia not HA Bedford. If any help? Gordon Wil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 Cheers Gordon, shows how little I know about the back ends of '60s vans! Adam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Since I started this thread some 54 pages ago, I don't know whether we've had this one before or not, but it's nice nonetheless. http://www.flickr.co...71476/lightbox/ A yellow liveried TK flatbed, registration 134 ELR (London, c. '62) - note the extra light - and what I presume is a Bedford HA in green registration CDN 761C, so York registered in '65, both at Peterborough. A Leyland at Templecombe: http://www.flickr.co...71476/lightbox/ And what looks like a trailer based mobile something or other at Norwich: http://www.flickr.co...71476/lightbox/ Adam The trailer like the one in message #1310. Mobile mess room trailers with shutters over the windows. Hundreds of them round the system, parked up on work sites where teams would be working for a while. Contained table, hard benches and kettle on a gas ring. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Cheers Gordon, shows how little I know about the back ends of '60s vans! The rear doors from the 'Anglia' van were reused on the Mk.1 & 2 Escort van. All three share that slight peak over the rear doors, but the Anglia's lights stick out on vestigial wings while the Escort's are larger and more or less flush http://www.simoncars.co.uk/fordcv/slides/Ford%20Escort%20MkII%20Van%20rear.jpg. The HA Bedford is much simpler and plainer http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/69/fe816c359f824375bfb88a01fea7afd6/l.jpg. Nice picture - you rarely see those sorts of coaches modelled even though the etches are probably available for them in 'as built' condition. Freight arrow still in evidence on the TK, I see. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Thanks Bernard and Merfyn, much obliged for the information. The Peterborough picture has a very period feel to it though I'll have to take the gallery owner's word for the writing - even on the largest size available it isn't legible. It is clearly relatively early ex-LMS corridor stock, however. Adam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcb 3c Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Another flickr pic , can't work out what is to the right of the ' fat sherpa' minibus,road vehicle ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/seacoaler/galleries/72157631766681873/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringo Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Jcb 3c, The thing next to the Freight Rover (big sherpa), is a Permaquip unit, used by the pway or electrification departments. Its delivered to site on the back of a modified flatbed lorry (i have seen several Ford Cargo's modified for this). Cheers r Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jim s-w Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) i think its one of these (or a varient of) http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/60/28/602800_4f587662.jpg Hth Jim Edited October 31, 2012 by jim s-w Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcb 3c Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Thanks , I could see a truck like cab door , can see why now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Bit of a random enquiry this one, but... Can anyone suggest a suitable registration number for a mid-1970s yellow BR Bedford HA van please? I'm modelling a chrome-grille, chrome-bumper version; just a bog-standard van, not an S&T with vents/roofracks/ladder (I'm saving that for next time!). WR or LMR registrations will be fine, to suit either of my fleets. A pre-'72 one with silver-on-black reg plates would be particularly appreciated! Cheers all Birmingham Division but Derby registered XCH 711M through to 719M some of the first vehicles I ever drove. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Birmingham Division but Derby registered XCH 711M through to 719M some of the first vehicles I ever drove. Many thanks 28XX, I have added these to my meagre records from that period. The XCH-M series were being replaced when I started on the railway. Merf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew E Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 I got tipped off to this fabulous resource courtesy of Commercial motor magazine - have a look: http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/2nd-november-1989/44/tracks Worth a scan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetype3 Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Another quick couple of questions for Merf if I may... maybe a bit of a memory test! On your Flickr 'Railway Road Motors' collection, there are a couple of good photos of YCH 625Y - Llandudno S&T Bedford HA. I've finally persuaded myself to model the roof bars, but picking out other details from the photos: 1. Were the pair of white plastic vents (one towards the top of the bodyside at the rear of the upper panel, and one in line with it but just above the side panel/sill joint), fitted only to the offside, or were there a similar pair on the nearside too? 2. Was the blue windscreen sunstrip fitted from new, or was it a bit of local esprit d'corps later in life? Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Another quick couple of questions for Merf if I may... maybe a bit of a memory test! On your Flickr 'Railway Road Motors' collection, there are a couple of good photos of YCH 625Y - Llandudno S&T Bedford HA. I've finally persuaded myself to model the roof bars, but picking out other details from the photos: 1. Were the pair of white plastic vents (one towards the top of the bodyside at the rear of the upper panel, and one in line with it but just above the side panel/sill joint), fitted only to the offside, or were there a similar pair on the nearside too? 2. Was the blue windscreen sunstrip fitted from new, or was it a bit of local esprit d'corps later in life? Cheers! Jim, will see if the memory is still any good. The vents were fitted to allow any leakage to escape as we usually carried propane gas bottles in the S&T, I think there was a strap to hold the bottle firm in that corner of the van, like in my motorhome. Nothing on the nearside as that was where the fuel tank was. Looking at my HA pictures I do not have any other pics. showing the vents. Yes, the Llandudno Junction S&T maintainance team always fitted a blue strip to their vans. Cheers Merf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Jim Just to add to the above. I have this morning been fileing away some photos and took a look. I did not find a single other HA van with those vents. Possibly only put on some at the end of HA production, as a number of later Marina, Ital and Astra vans have similar vents. Later still a seperate sealed compartment was provided for gas bottles. H & S at work ? Merf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Odd that lpg regulations for fitting in cars, state that venting should be in the floor of the boot as gas is heavier than air. And you had vents in the top of the vehicle? Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Odd that lpg regulations for fitting in cars, state that venting should be in the floor of the boot as gas is heavier than air. And you had vents in the top of the vehicle? Stewart Slight improvment on earlier vehicles with none ! And some people smoked in vans back then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stuartp Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Operating Department were clearly made of sterner stuff. Dets, parrafin, LPG bottles - they all got chucked loose in the back of the Yellow Peril ... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andye Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 (edited) I remember taking our sherpa (E245 AMW) from old oak back to marylebone, with a 205 litre drum and a pallet of brake blocks, it was on the bumpstops, and i nearly Sh@@ myself when the back door popped open on the westway flyover, luckily nothing fell out! Edited November 11, 2012 by andye Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andye Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 A question for Merf! I have just bought D336 PHR, a leyland roadrunner crewbus - do you have any records of it? Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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