Black Halls

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Please can someone provide a list of black painted Halls (WW2 era)?

 

Thanks.

 

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When batches of engines were built during the "black livery" phase (42-45)   were they out-shopped in unlined green or black?

 

It would seem odd to send out a new Hall in Green when something else had come in for a much needed repaint and come out black.

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I think I can now answer my own post, thanks to a reply to a similar issue.  Mike Coachman posted and interesting link to a photo of 6944.

 

The photo shows a yet to be named 6944, in black with no cab side window and no name plates.  So this dates it as being 1942 - 1947 on the name alone.  But the tender is a lined Hawksworth livery unit, so this puts the date frame around 1946 ish to 1947.

 

Hall 6944 must have been built in black.  I beleive this to be so as it was uniikely to have been outshopped in green in 42 and then had a full repaint into black so quickly.