Van with crane , Anybody know it’s origin ?

[melmoth]

17 minutes ago, Fat Controller said:

Definitely in either a 1980s MRC, or one of the MRC 'Annuals', which had some very useful features on wagons by the usual suspects.

 

p38, 1983 MRC annual, "A Modern Engineers' Train"

[Steamport Southport]

Definitely revisited it then. From UK Model Shops database

 

1998  4 Autumn More mess van details, please! Photographs of a converted GW fruit van, from Wrenn

2003  60  October Engineers Mess van Prototype photographs

2003  62 December Engineers Mess van Prototype photograph

2005 81 July    Making a mess of a 'Fruit D' Converting the Parkside Dundas 'Fruit D' kit into a crane mess van

2005 81 July   Mess van DB975411 Prototype photographs

 

There was also quite a few articles on cranes about the same time.

 

 

 

Jason

[hmrspaul]

I caught up with 975411 a year or so after Chris's article in the Annual https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/departmental975400/e1aa1ca99 

[We had over 20 pages on Plates in the same Annual]

 

Paul

[62613]

On 06/07/2019 at 12:08, Fat Controller said:

Probably showing my age, but I remember Dibber 25, of this parish, modelling a Plasser & Theurer crane and its support vehicles in Model Railway Constructor. The support vehicles were a GWR-design Fruit D (very like your photo) and 22t Tube wagon.

Still got the book!