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CommanderChuff

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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.

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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?

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