CHARTER DAY AT WATFORD
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The hoarding on this lorry reads “This
vehicle connects
the railway with your door” and on the back is a short
section of track. The fleet number of the lorry is not
quite readable, but it could be a pre-war Thorneycroft.
It is assumed that the livery follows that of goods
railway wagons: grey with white lettering, but perhaps
a member can confirm this?
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Four horses hauling an industrial
boiler, on which is written “LNWR we lead, trade follows”.
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A heavier flat bed lorry than
the first picture, but
possibly also a Thorneycroft. The board reads “For quick
transit and prompt delivery of goods and merchandise write(?)
^ phone your orders for collection to Goods Agent, Watford”.
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Ford parcels delivery lorry,
fleet number 85D. The livery is
similar to that carried by railway carriages and makes the
previous goods lorries look rather plain and stark.
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Two horses pulling a long wagon,
on which is carried one of
the magnificent quarter-size models of a 12-wheeled Dining
Saloon which is now in the National Railway Museum. The
wagon looks to be an extendible limber wagon.
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A single horse lurry carrying a model of
an LNWR ship. The
LNWR had a number of these ship models, along with the
carriages, but their current whereabouts is not certain.
There is a similar model in the Transport Museum at Kelvin
Hall, Glasgow, but does anyone know If that model was one of
those commissioned by the LNWR?
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See also Letters page
for further information.
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