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Alec K
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With the same 'Westcountry background' theme as the Ivor Dewdney Boxcars posted in another thread on this forum, my first attempt at converting a new vehicle was the 'Daws Creameries' milk tanker shown below.
No LGB vehicles were harmed in the transformation that took place, as, given my
limited resources, razor saw and LGB are two mutually exclusive categories. The donor vehicle was modified to look a little less like a fuel tanker, sprayed with tin coats of Halfors grey plastic primer and then finished with thin coats of Halfords Aluminium colour. The branding transfers were created by Chris Moxham. Daws Creameries was an active business on a site almost underneath the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, in Cornwall; it used Wincanton Transport road tankers and continued in business until the early 1970s, when the waterside site was cleared and used to shore up the hillside behind and for housing purposes. Saltash Goods Yard in the 1960s was rarely without at least three ex GW milk tank wagons awaiting attachment to an up train bound eventually for Wandsworth.
My vehicle blends both these sets of memories. Chris Moxham and I have worked, incidentally, on another of these vehicles, this time in partnership with the Rodda family of Scorrier in Cornwall, where their renowned clotted cream has been made since the 1920s. One of the two Roddas Clotted Cream tank wagons we produced now earns its keep on a garden railway not too far from the modern dairy at Scorrier.
No LGB vehicles were harmed in the transformation that took place, as, given my
limited resources, razor saw and LGB are two mutually exclusive categories. The donor vehicle was modified to look a little less like a fuel tanker, sprayed with tin coats of Halfors grey plastic primer and then finished with thin coats of Halfords Aluminium colour. The branding transfers were created by Chris Moxham. Daws Creameries was an active business on a site almost underneath the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, in Cornwall; it used Wincanton Transport road tankers and continued in business until the early 1970s, when the waterside site was cleared and used to shore up the hillside behind and for housing purposes. Saltash Goods Yard in the 1960s was rarely without at least three ex GW milk tank wagons awaiting attachment to an up train bound eventually for Wandsworth.
My vehicle blends both these sets of memories. Chris Moxham and I have worked, incidentally, on another of these vehicles, this time in partnership with the Rodda family of Scorrier in Cornwall, where their renowned clotted cream has been made since the 1920s. One of the two Roddas Clotted Cream tank wagons we produced now earns its keep on a garden railway not too far from the modern dairy at Scorrier.
