containers Different sizes and configurations from 1980

[Esmedune]

I sent a message to their website, but no reply as yet, so I am wondering if anyone can help identify this 1980 stock?
Exhibit A.
Rocket 150 event in Rainhill 1980.


So, we have a couple of FGA BR Freightliner Outer Container Flats, one with a 40ft Freightliner and a 20ft OCL (old logo), a 30ft Royal Mail Parcels and a 30ft CNC with side doors.  However, the middle two are about 6" shorter, and from this fuzzy TV angle, the Freightliner looks to be a foot wider! All of C-Rail's stock only comes with two measurements, the length, and I assume the height, 8'6".  While it may be a little OCD of me to want to match that exactly, I want to match that exactly. I know C-Line do a 40ft Freightliner, but I am assuming it will be 8ft wide and not 9ft?  Then can I get some 8ft high containers to maintain the scale?

I also cannot find anything like the CNC container, which has Marking panels and the door on the side.
 

If any knowledgeable soul could help me, I would be eternally grateful.

Paul
 

Edited July 19, 2021 by Esmedune
Typo

[arran]

HI All 

 

They are all 8ft wide for sure . 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9809876,-2.1163653,60a,35y,90h,45.04t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-GB  royal mail 30ft I think "  spied from the van"

 

CNC i thing stood for Cherbourg Nord Cotentin and looks to have been swallowed up by CMA CGM

 

Regards Arran

Edited July 19, 2021 by arran

[Mike Harvey]

@Esmedune You might struggle with finding an accurate Procar 80 car transporter. :-)

[Fat Controller]

CNC were later to adopt an all-over orange livery, and then a white and green one. I believe they had been 'Compagnie Nouvelle des Cadres', then becoming 'Compagnie Nouvelle des Conteneurs' . Until the train ferry stopped in late 1995, they used to run to Dunkerque from Orleans, then were transferred to transit trailers as far as Dover, before being transhipped to another trailer as far as Melton Mowbray. They had originally been established by SNCF as specialists in 'Caisses Mobiles', otherwise 'Swap Bodies'. These were non-ISO boxes, of different lengths, and with varying arrangements of doors. Somewhere, I have quite a number of photos, taken at Dover, showing different types; From March onwards, I was being trained at Farthingloe to be a crew member at Eurotunnel, so could nip down to Western Docks quite easily.

The operation is now known as 'Naviland', and runs a network of services from Le Havre.

Edited July 20, 2021 by Fat Controller
More material discovered.

[Esmedune]

16 hours ago, arran said:

HI All 

 

They are all 8ft wide for sure . 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9809876,-2.1163653,60a,35y,90h,45.04t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-GB  royal mail 30ft I think "  spied from the van"

 

CNC i thing stood for Cherbourg Nord Cotentin and looks to have been swallowed up by CMA CGM

 

Regards Arran

Yeah, that's a 30 and a 20.  I do have an image of what looks like an old Hornby 20ft one, but it lacks detail, it is just a box with horizontal stripes.

[Esmedune]

5 hours ago, Mike Harvey said:

@Esmedune You might struggle with finding an accurate Procar 80 car transporter. :-)

There is one that is a good starting point for a conversion, but the sides will need remodelling.

[arran]

1 hour ago, Esmedune said:

Yeah, that's a 30 and a 20.  I do have an image of what looks like an old Hornby 20ft one, but it lacks detail, it is just a box with horizontal stripes.

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightlinercontainer

 

Better pics of the royal mail coantainers