7mm A Cct Makeover With A Little Help From Oven Pride

[TheSnapper]

Any chance of a scan of the pic until I can get hold of the book ?.......is the book still in print ?......

No probs Phill, sorry for delay, I've been working all weekend!

It's one of those old square Bradford Barton paperbacks from 1978 - long-time out of print, but Nick Tozer or others often have them at shows:



Here's the page I referred to:



Steve - thanks for the link to your PMV build. Mine will be mucky green - more muck than green probably!

Cheers

Tim

 

[Phill Dyson]

Thanks Tim ...much appreciated

Is that the one you picked up at Halifax the other year ? ...........some of these books have now been reprinted by Book Law/Santona



Cheers Phill

 

[lancer1027]

I have that book Tim, a very useful book.

Rob

 

[Pennine MC]

Nearest I can come up with is a B&W photo in David Larkin's "BR General Parcels Rolling Stock" on page 8, of an even-planked CCT pictured in 1969 numbered S1765S.

That's from the batch I mentioned in post #27 - it's not completely even planked, only the doors.

Yes a good heads up that link , im just wondering which variant ive got as it hasnt the lower body side vents Pmv maybe?

The vans without bodyside vents are of SECR origin (the design was widely adopted by the Southern but originated before the Grouping) - the article in the link mentions that.

All or any of the Dave Larkin books are a goldmine if you're into freight stock, he has something like 17000 negatives and has more recently bought in shots from earlier collections. He's done series for Bradford Barton, Santona and Kestrel Books. I dont know the position now but the BB ones used to fetch silly prices; they were about 3 quid in the '70s.

 

[westernfan]

yes i read the attachment a second time and got my awnser . looks like i need to remove the roof torpedo vents and add some side vents under the marker boards for my model to run with the cct circa early 60s

 

[Phill Dyson]

All or any of the Dave Larkin books are a goldmine if you're into freight stock, he has something like 17000 negatives and has more recently bought in shots from earlier collections. He's done series for Bradford Barton, Santona and Kestrel Books. I dont know the position now but the BB ones used to fetch silly prices; they were about 3 quid in the '70s.

I would love to get a copy of the Parcels Stock one ..............but not at silly collectors prices

Phill

 

[TheSnapper]

Is that the one you picked up at Halifax the other year ? .....

That's the one - good memory! Cost me £6.50, which I don't think is too bad nowadays

There are more in the series:


I have 2 of them - well worth looking out for.





Back to CCT/PMV's -anyone tried the CRT Kits version? http://www.crtkits.co.uk/www.crtkits.gbr.cc/info.php?p=6

Tim

 

[Phill Dyson]

I will look out for those books Tim ....not bad at all at £6.50, I will have to have a look in Nick's shop when I get a chance, as it's not far from me

Don't know about anyone else, but I've not done any CRT kits....some nice Southern stuff though.

Once I've done something with the Slaters CCT, I have a Westdale GUV & Stanier BG (MTH) to do for my parcels rake.

My present parcels rake is just a few MK1 BG's & a Syphon G, so it could it do with a bit more variety

Phill