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I ope not. Their last engineers wagon was a bit of a dog.

Consett > Tyne Yard not doable. 9P72 Tees > Raisby tripper for 1969 looks a goer. Loads of Conflat L's and Berry Wiggins tanks.

... and your preferred headcode?

Surely you me a dead short? 😮

Dear Burb, Wakey, wakey. Loadsa references or from the website.

Planning for the future? 😬

"Jamaica" Banana producers warranted a mention earlier in the thread. The Companies time line. https://jpjamaica.com/timeline/

Marketing opportunity. Buy 3 wagons: get free Guinness voucher. YaY!

Erm... ...Bonobo Banana Cockeyed Cider or https://brotherscider.co.uk/products/brothers-toffee-apple-cider Guaranteed gluten free. Mixes luverly with half of Guin.

A somewhat infamous 1930's/40's dictator?

Dear Duckie, In the Dapol (Dublo in my day) body floor, 45 degree cuts into each corner with a razor saw then cut out the remaining floor chunks with a said saw. Clean up insides with file and a ratio u/f was a snug fit (way before days of the Red Panda). You could always glue a step, 2 x 1 mm strip, to the inside of the remaining "box" for the floor to sit against. All this was way back in the early 1970's and it was probably Gunpowder vans but method should still should hold true. Just by coincidence a Rumney Models GPV has just dropped through the letterbox.

Yep, my front lawn omelettes turns everybodies heads into a bananas.

With triple lock trepidation I'll have to make do with getting drunk on rum & raisin fudge. These days I don't need to get drunk to start hallucinating.

But not the way OR has represented them by giving us double that of the prototype. Easy to remove every other one though. P (who finds counting rivets quite relaxing).

As you say, "been there, done that". I've since taken to thinning the wheels by turning off the outside face of the un-prototypical dished tyre rim. Far less time consuming that grinding out splashers/running plates. What I found much more laborious was getting rid of all those rivets along the running pate top & around the splashers that Oxford Rail for some reason, gave us as freebies. Thanks to the two Richards I've now got a Mk1 Bradwell chassis and etched coping plates, so working inside motion here I come? Hoping all is well, down your way. P

I found my high level gearbox's with High Level coreless motor to be better performers on DC but that's not to take anything away from the Oxford rail J27 chassis. Mine would happily run at 0.18 volts (yep there's a zero in there) starting voltage being about 0.2v The example in the Vid has been converted to EM and I just bent the pick ups out marginally to maintain electrical contact. It was ran from cold & had no prior running in. Not bad running considering its cost. What do you reckon?

Wot! Not even any bananas?

I would never dream of quoting the Price Marking Order of 2004 which clearly states the retailer (shop or web) is not obliged to honour the displayed retail price and yes, I have no bananas.

Does the retailer have to honour the "displayed price"? 🤨

When I hope all those pictured above can get together again, go down the Strand and give us all a quick chorus of:

I'm sure I read it was Sir Chillmanley Elders Esq. "I believe" they were for carrying special pre-ripened Bolivian bonana's which were loaded onto dedicated Conflat Pee's.

Looking at the summer 1965 WTT for freight trains (Section C, N.E.R.) the 02:45 ex York Yard to Tyne Yard via the coast route, is given extra time to detach Banana Traffic at Seaham as required.

Use the search facility on that web web page to look for "gwrms1725". Simples.

Not high quality but I find them interesting. F & G. Seventh pic down the page. 20/10/1965 S'hamptpn, 1963. Who needs a banana van anywez? BWR0626 CONFLAT A NO B705579 WITH CONTAINER BDF14447B IN FREIGHT HAULED BY 48219 PASSING DERBY ST MARYS GOODS DEPOT , FRI 04.03.1966 by David Russon, on Flickr ... and here's a bit of track only laid in the early sixties. Straight into a Fyffes banana factory (ripening warehouse) purpose built at the same time. Looks like a lovely model. Die-cast floor, separate door handles & locking bars, smashing small coupling pockets that leaves the brake bow string intact... ... looks like a lot of thought has gone into it. Can't wait for the Conflat L. 😋

Didn't even say if the wagon was made by Wrenn or Dapol. Pah!