CommanderChuff Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Courtesy of Greg Martin. This picture of a WO railway tanker has the name Storey's Gate on the top right of the tank, and that is the address of Churchill's wartime bunker, the site of the first UN meeting and near to the hotel where I stay in London. So this vehicle (or one like it) transported fuel to be used by Churchill in his car or room heater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Another thing given away! :argh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bystander Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 I believe that it is just the address of the registered owner of the wagon, which would have had to be registered as a private owner wagon to operate on the railway network, in this case a Class A tank wagon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderChuff Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 Thanks Bystander, that would make more sense as there were 24 tankers and that would be an awfull lot of fuel. But the coincidence linkage was quite interesting nevertheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderChuff Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 Could you comment on the contents of such a wagon? The lettering is very prominent and the warning is very definitive, more so than one would expect of a ordinary petrol tanker. Could this be nitro or some such exotic explosive fluid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bystander Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 (edited) Could you comment on the contents of such a wagon? The lettering is very prominent and the warning is very definitive, more so than one would expect of a ordinary petrol tanker. Could this be nitro or some such exotic explosive fluid? I believe that it is builder's photo of a prototype/first built example of the standard MoS Class A tank wagon (my memory says 1942, but might well be at fault). Charles Roberts were the key builder I think, although your photo shows a Midland RC&W example. You are quite correct in saying that normal production examples (and probably this one after the official photos were taken) were painted in a far more discrete manner. Rather than relying on my memory there was a very good article on MoS tank wagons in either Backtrack or Modellers Backtrack about 15 years ago. Sorry I have far too much on at the moment to search this out - maybe somebody else could help? Edited November 10, 2009 by Bystander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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