Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Bob,
Might you have the measurements of the body dimensions plate which was affixed to the end of the Mk.1 body?
I have come across a photograph ofa Mk.1 where the vestibule door to the left hand end has a bump stop... which was not necessary as (a) such doors (ought to have) had straps to restrict opening and (b) if the door was to open 180 degrees then the bump stop on the door would not touch the body anyway ('cos there would not have been any body there!).
So how often did doors get swamped between vehicles or between positions within a vehicle? I was talking to the C&W team at Winchcombe some years back and they reckoned they could tell which works made the body / door by the fit (of lack of)... the door in the hole. All of which suggested to me, at the time, that swapping doors was not common place.
regards, Graham
Might you have the measurements of the body dimensions plate which was affixed to the end of the Mk.1 body?
I have come across a photograph ofa Mk.1 where the vestibule door to the left hand end has a bump stop... which was not necessary as (a) such doors (ought to have) had straps to restrict opening and (b) if the door was to open 180 degrees then the bump stop on the door would not touch the body anyway ('cos there would not have been any body there!).
So how often did doors get swamped between vehicles or between positions within a vehicle? I was talking to the C&W team at Winchcombe some years back and they reckoned they could tell which works made the body / door by the fit (of lack of)... the door in the hole. All of which suggested to me, at the time, that swapping doors was not common place.
regards, Graham