LMS 3rd class Coach No 2962

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On the Warwickshire Railways website there is mention of  a Bertram Mills Circus special which left Devonport (SR) for Truro in June 1939 which contained the above coach. From the Essery and Jenkinson volume I gather this was probably a Pre-Group corridor third but that unfortunately is the extent of my library on things LMS. Could anyone supply any further details such as the origin, diagram, or other pertinent data please?

 

The link for the page on these Circus Specials is here for anyone interested.

 

Thanks in anticipation, Ken...

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Second LMS No. 2962 was an ex-LNWR D265 57 ft corridor third, one of 174 built in 1908. Carriages to this diagram were only 8'6" wide at a time when 9'0" had become standard for LNWR stock. These carriages had the traditional Wolverton style of panelling.

 

Ref. D. Jenkinson, LNWR Carriages: a Concise History (Pendragon, 1995, revised second edition of An Illustrated History of LNWR Coaches, OPC, 1978). Appendix I, Fig. 30, p. 92, and Plate 108 (LNWR livery), p. 93.