WD0-6-0 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 (edited) Does anybody know what livery salt vans carried in BR days? I can't find any photos that show them in any BR livery, did any receive the bauxite or grey standard colours? Were any XP rated? Thanks everyone Rhys Edited June 22, 2017 by WD0-6-0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Post War these vans and opens were still PO wagons as they had been designated 'Non Pool' in 1939 and as such retained their owner liveries! Non of these vans were 'fitted' and as such would not be XP rated! Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WD0-6-0 Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 That clears that up! Thank you Rhys Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 They lasted quite late: David Larkin suggests into the late 1950s. They seem to have roamed far and wide from their homes in Staffordshire (Shaka) and Cheshire (Saxa). As well as the vans, there were sheeted opens in similar liveries for bulk salt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 I believe that many of the later survivors were owned by ICI and carried bauxite rather than the bright liveries. Cottage roof wagons were mainly for boxed and bagged household salt or salt for manufacturing food. So they got everywhere. I think the famous picture of a bright yellow Saxa Salt wagon in one of the Bill Hudson books was taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s. So you can have them in bright PO livery or drab ICI livery. Salt for other uses was mostly carried in sheeted wagons and later in presflo wagons. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 I believe that many of the later survivors were owned by ICI and carried bauxite rather than the bright liveries. Cottage roof wagons were mainly for boxed and bagged household salt or salt for manufacturing food. So they got everywhere. I think the famous picture of a bright yellow Saxa Salt wagon in one of the Bill Hudson books was taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s. So you can have them in bright PO livery or drab ICI livery. Salt for other uses was mostly carried in sheeted wagons and later in presflo wagons. Jason I doubt that the ICI vans were painted bauxite as Transport Blue was the colour for their wagons and the one of these van was sold to BSC Wissington and retained the ICI Blue till it was preserved at Cottesmore where it retained this livery till about 6 years ago! Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 One of mine is bauxite. Details taken from a Modellers Backtrack a few years ago which had photographs. About 1996. The one on this page looks bauxite to me. http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-totransport-salt.html Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 One of mine is bauxite. Details taken from a Modellers Backtrack a few years ago which had photographs. About 1996. The one on this page looks bauxite to me. http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-totransport-salt.html Jason That looks Red rather than Bauxite and when I saw that one it was definitely Red! If it is prewar livery then it is Red, the wartime build were also painted Red before Transport Blue was adopted! Mark Mark Saunders 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 It probably is. I was going by the article when I built mine. Things get lost in translation sometimes. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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