Well the GRS transfers duly arrived and I must say I'm very impressed by their appearance although it will take a little while to apply them (probably find time to do the conversion over Xmas period). The United Dairies is the correct black edged red and in the right font and it comes with 4 of those little blue England maps (not sure why 4?) and it has all the white chassis lettering such as LMS, tare, wheelbase, shunt with care and a selection of correct numbers (unfortunately not the original numbers, but the renumbered series).
All the best.
Chris
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IrishPeter
Please would you tell me what the wheel back to backs are on the standard gauge wagon that is the load for your transporter. I am working on one for the Cromarty Light, and I do not want to make it too fat! I am assuming that if one goes for 1438mm translated in SM scale one is looking at about 70mm B2B. Is that anywhere close?
Oh and BTW, is the GRS transporter wagon a long one or a short one. My project is a short (19'6") one hich scales out at 312mm L and 128mmW
Peter in AZ
Oh and BTW, is the GRS transporter wagon a long one or a short one. My project is a short (19'6") one hich scales out at 312mm L and 128mmW
Peter in AZ
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IrishPeter
One of my first holiday jobs age 17 was delivering milk, and I can vouch for the fact that everything was mucky on the outside, and clean on the inside. The trucks and barrows were cleaned by the 'high pressure hose, and stand well back' method once a week, but it was a different matter if the product came into contact with it. If milk came into contact with a surface it was steam cleaned, or otherwise sterilized, regularly.
In the days before road collection by tanker, most diaries had a steam cleaner into which churns were placed for sterilization before going to the farms. The Leek and Manifold handled very lage numbers of churns for many years before the tankers were introduced, and even after they came along c.1920, the line still handled a lot of milk in churns.
The same steam cleaning technology was used to clean bottles even in my day. There was a fairly big steam belching washer in one corner of the bottling plant doing the biz. Steam was also used for flash pasteurisation of milk, and there was a oil-fired boiler in one corner of the plant. Periodically this would have a turn and the resulting emissions would look like a destroyer making smoke to confuse the enemy gunners.
Peter in AZ
In the days before road collection by tanker, most diaries had a steam cleaner into which churns were placed for sterilization before going to the farms. The Leek and Manifold handled very lage numbers of churns for many years before the tankers were introduced, and even after they came along c.1920, the line still handled a lot of milk in churns.
The same steam cleaning technology was used to clean bottles even in my day. There was a fairly big steam belching washer in one corner of the bottling plant doing the biz. Steam was also used for flash pasteurisation of milk, and there was a oil-fired boiler in one corner of the plant. Periodically this would have a turn and the resulting emissions would look like a destroyer making smoke to confuse the enemy gunners.
Peter in AZ
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