Lowfit Invacar

[Darius43]

Sounds like a Latin tag but inspired by a thread elsewhere on RMWeb.

 

 

 

 

Parkside Lowfit with Oxford Diecast Invacar.  Tissue paper sacking padding and 0.25mm marine model rigging thread.
 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Very nice.

I think you're a bit overoptimistic with the wheel chocks though, unless of course pics exist!, I'm considering using random bits of wood.

The foregoing assumes mine ever escape the clutches of Spanish officialdom and couriers, they've been on their way from Hattons since their release date!

 

Mike.

[Darius43]

Agreed they are a bit on the heavy side.  They were spares from a rake of Oxford Rail Carflats and so were available to hand.  The photos of the real things on the other thread did seem to indicate yellow painted wheel chocks.

 

Cheers 

 

Darius

[Fat Controller]

8 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Sounds like a Latin tag but inspired by a thread elsewhere on RMWeb.

 

 

 

 

Parkside Lowfit with Oxford Diecast Invacar.  Tissue paper sacking padding and 0.25mm marine model rigging thread.
 

Cheers

 

Darius

It's a while since I chocked anything, but my recollection is that the chocks fitted the opposite way. i.e. sloping side against the wheel

[Darius43]

The more I look at the chocks they look too big - as well as being the wrong way around - so I’m going to replace them with smaller ones made from plasticard.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Enterprisingwestern]

8 hours ago, Fat Controller said:

It's a while since I chocked anything, but my recollection is that the chocks fitted the opposite way. i.e. sloping side against the wheel

 

What's the difference between a scotch and a chock?

Sheffield buses, proper Regents and PD2's etc, used to have a transfer in the cab stating all buses must be scotched when parked or something similar.

 

Mike.

[Darius43]

Meet the new chocks.  [Not the] Same as the old chocks.

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Enterprisingwestern]

14 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Agreed they are a bit on the heavy side.  They were spares from a rake of Oxford Rail Carflats and so were available to hand.  The photos of the real things on the other thread did seem to indicate yellow painted wheel chocks.

 

Cheers 

 

Darius

 

As yellow painted wheel chocks seem a bit specific to the traffic (to me, I'm not casting aspersions on your reasoning, bits of wood made into chocks would seem more likely), might the wagons employed on this traffic have been kept on the "circuit" to ensure the chocks were returned to sender, or was it that things were done "properly" in the day and random pieces of wood were painted yellow?

Apologies for getting a bit anal with this, but it's piqued my interest.

 

Mike.

[jwealleans]

I'll post when I find it, but I'm sure I have a photo of these loaded sideways on Lowfits, 3 to a wagon.

[Enterprisingwestern]

14 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

I'll post when I find it, but I'm sure I have a photo of these loaded sideways on Lowfits, 3 to a wagon.

 

I hope not, I've only ordered 2!

 

Mike.

[Darius43]

1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

What's the difference between a scotch and a chock?

As far as I am aware you can’t get a single malt chock.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Darius43]

Looking at the photo of the Invacars with the Interfrigo ferry wagons on the other thread, I detected a hint of yellow where the wheel chocks were.  Hence my yellow chocks.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Asterix2012]

It looks like scotch is used in railway terms, found this on a quick google 

 

“Scotch blocks are a specialty type of wheel chock made of steel or steel alloy. Scotch blocks are traditionally used on railways to prevent parked train cars from moving or rolling. Scotch blocks are also sometimes used to store motorcycles or other vehicles that typically rely on a kickstand to remain upright while stationary.”

 

on this page

 

https://www.myteeproducts.com/auto-towing-hauling/wheel-chocks-scotch-blocks.html

 

looks like American usage though 

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, jwealleans said:

I'll post when I find it, but I'm sure I have a photo of these loaded sideways on Lowfits, 3 to a wagon.

Only on the LNER would THAT happen :)

[Mallard60022]

20 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Sounds like a Latin tag but inspired by a thread elsewhere on RMWeb.

 

 

 

 

Parkside Lowfit with Oxford Diecast Invacar.  Tissue paper sacking padding and 0.25mm marine model rigging thread.
 

Cheers

 

Darius

 

Nice one Darius. Reassures me that my order for Parkside  Kits was the correct decision as a stop gap.

[Michael Hodgson]

1 hour ago, Darius43 said:

As far as I am aware you can’t get a single malt chock.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

As is happens last Xmas I was given an Advent calendar of whisky chocs - most of them were blended but two were malt!

 

Love the vehicle, but would they really have painted chocks yellow back then - wouldn't they have just been blocks of wood, unpainted or simply treated with preservative, with or without a handle?  Your smaller chocks certainly look better than the first  ones.  Yellow paint strikes me as more of modern health & safety notion, whereas those old invalid carriages always looked like 3-wheeled death traps, even at the time.

 

This is the sort of thing I have in mind, albeit these ones were intended for rail wheels and not used correctly (para 3)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-digest-122018-bitton/runaway-of-two-coaches-at-bitton-avon-valley-railway-25-july-2018

[31A]

Quite a few pictures of road vehicles including Invacars loaded onto Lowfits on Paul Bartlett's web site:

 

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brlowfit

 

In many cases you can't see the chocks due to the wagon's sides, but the one in the last picture on the page (can't seem to link to individual images?) seems to have been chocked with a baulk of timber across the wagon, rather than individual ones for each wheel.

 

 

 

 

[Michael Hodgson]

One doesn't need a number plate, and one apparently belongs to the AA not the Royal Automobile Club ...

 

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-queen-elizabeth-ii-stands-next-to-a-classic-invacar-invalid-carriage-139069731.html

 

 

[hmrspaul]

On 29/04/2022 at 11:20, 31A said:

Quite a few pictures of road vehicles including Invacars loaded onto Lowfits on Paul Bartlett's web site:

 

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brlowfit

 

In many cases you can't see the chocks due to the wagon's sides, but the one in the last picture on the page (can't seem to link to individual images?) seems to have been chocked with a baulk of timber across the wagon, rather than individual ones for each wheel.

The squiggle above every photo gives the individual url for linking to a photo. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brlowfit/e1d777c1b

 

This shows the chocks that I remember seeing quite often. Individually nailed into the floor. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brlowfit/e153eff56 used on bogie carflats - those large yellow ones were a very late introduction IIRC. 

 

Paul

 

 

 

 

[jwealleans]

On 29/04/2022 at 08:28, jwealleans said:

... I'm sure I have a photo of these loaded sideways on Lowfits, 3 to a wagon.

 

So much for memory.  I was right about the sideways, 3 to a wagon bit, though:

 

 

No idea where this came from - if the copyright holder wishes to get in touch, I'm very happy to credit.

 

[Darius43]

9 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

 

So much for memory.  I was right about the sideways, 3 to a wagon bit, though:

 

 

No idea where this came from - if the copyright holder wishes to get in touch, I'm very happy to credit.

 

Great photo although they look like Bubble Cars (BMW Isetta) rather than Invacars.  Great inspiration for an unusual formation.

 

Looks like the approach to Brighton.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

 

 

Edited April 30, 2022 by Darius43

[KeithHC]

15 hours ago, jwealleans said:

 

So much for memory.  I was right about the sideways, 3 to a wagon bit, though:

 

 

No idea where this came from - if the copyright holder wishes to get in touch, I'm very happy to credit.

 

And a product of Brighton Works what would Mister Stroudley say…….

 

Keith

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, KeithHC said:

And a product of Brighton Works what would Mister Stroudley say…….

 

Keith

The Cars form Brighton Works? I never knew that. Blimey.

Phil

[Darius43]

Built under license by Isetta of Great Britain in the former Brighton Works between 1957 and 1962.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, Darius43 said:

Built under license by Isetta of Great Britain in the former Brighton Works between 1957 and 1962.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Well well I learn something new every day. I had never ever heard that or seen a Pic like the one shown.

Thanks.