Photos of the original 1930's drawings

Well I never thought that I would of got the chance to view and photograph the original drawings of the GWR Royal Mail coach.

It was through a very good friend that had worked on the rebuild of the coach that is I believe at Didcot.

The level of detail and the interesting notes by fire buckets etc was great to read.

Unfortunately the condition of a number of the was very poor so putting them through a model print machine to copy them was out of the question, but my pocket point and click digital camera managed to take some photos of them.
They are in Sections for greater detail and I will upload some of the overall images scaled down below.

I might now be buying the Hornby Royal Mail OO gauge and looking to refine it with this information.


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Made my day

ATB,
:thumbs Ian

Great find Ian!  It really is good to have some primary data to work from, always remembering that the actual vehicle may have differed in some ways from the drawings.  Therefore photographic evidence is very important too.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the RTR coach.

John

[user=1700]Nairepooc[/user] wrote:

Well I never thought that I would of got the chance to view and photograph the original drawings of the GWR Royal Mail coach.

It was through a very good friend that had worked on the rebuild of the coach that is I believe at Didcot.

The level of detail and the interesting notes by fire buckets etc was great to read.

Unfortunately the condition of a number of the was very poor so putting them through a model print machine to copy them was out of the question, but my pocket point and click digital camera managed to take some photos of them.
They are in Sections for greater detail and I will upload some of the overall images scaled down below.

I might now be buying the Hornby Royal Mail OO gauge and looking to refine it with this information.






Made my day

ATB,
:thumbs Ian

Hi Ian,sorry to be a killjoy but is there copywrite on the drawings or do you have permission to reproduce them,if not i may have to remove them.I hope so because they look very interesting.

I have removed the images, as I am unsure about the copyright on the drawings.
I am looking into this

If I can I will re-post the images for anyone interested or if your want dimensions etc then contact me and I will see what I can do :roll:

ATB,
:thumbs Ian

Bitter sweet……….

I do not have persmission to reproduce the images

But,

I have managed to purchase 2 Gems;

Railway Mechanical Engineering Volumes I & II by The Gresham Publishing Group (1923)
Oh so much information & drawings, Happy as Larry
:Happy

ATB,

:thumbs Ian

i found a hornby non-operating G.W.R. royal mail coach not sure of the part number.