7mm On Heather's Workbench - one final time, with feeling
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Not really - I've the same references as you. I reckon that @LarryG has done the heavy lifting here & I wouldn't argue with his conclusions.
All I'd add is that the transfers are really only visible on the compartment side; on the corridor side they'd be affixed to the corridor screen quarterlights, so hard to see from the outside.
simond
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AJC
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Will’s being Bristol-based, of course (was there overlap at board level?), and this is the company that brought us Lloyds A1 or whatever it was as a name for a Castle?
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jonte
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“I say……can’t ‘storp’, just orf to give Jerry a darned good thrashing in the ol’ Hurryi. Six of the best, ‘trisers dine’! Barf, barf! Pick you up tomorrow in the MG, seven o’ clock sharp. Wear something, ahum, light. By the way, Delightful, what’s your name?”.
(With apologies to the Black Adder writers).
jonte
(With apologies to the Black Adder writers).
jonte
Heather Kay
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Another one under way.
That leaves the Collet to do. Then the sides can be varnished and another step along the road to completion.
It’s interesting the GWR had a blanket no smoking policy from the outset. Presumably public opinion brought the change in the early 20th century. That the Powers That Be decided to provide smoking rather than NON-smoking compartments says a lot about the GWR all round!
That leaves the Collet to do. Then the sides can be varnished and another step along the road to completion.
It’s interesting the GWR had a blanket no smoking policy from the outset. Presumably public opinion brought the change in the early 20th century. That the Powers That Be decided to provide smoking rather than NON-smoking compartments says a lot about the GWR all round!
LarryG
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As we now realise after the smoking ban, smoking didn't half have an affect on upholstery and wall décor. I saw the affect on the upper deck of the bus I purchased for preservation and so it's easy to see why the GWR reigned against allowing passenger to smoke in its carriages.
Phil O
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The Castle Inn at Lydford, built an extension to the bar, and spent quite a bit on trying to get the ceiling to match the the existing ceiling which possibly had a century or more of cigarette and log fire smoke on it, within a couple years or so, the extension had blended in quite well.
Heather Kay
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After a brief interlude where I went to my Mum's to be on hand if required following a cataract operation last week, I’m back and trying to work out where I got to!
Apart from some minor paint corrections here and there, all the sides are lined, lettered and varnished. The crests on the composite look wrong, but having a door on the corridor side slap bang where the crest should be is a pain. Perhaps it might have been better one panel to the left? Bit late now. Oh well.
I think my plan should be to start tackling the interiors now.
Heather Kay
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Heather Kay
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Well, that went better than I expected. I’ll varnish again tomorrow, then I’m back on track.
