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I'd be willing to take two, with Mols one its enough to get an MGWR 3rd across the line. Any thoughts for the MGWR 4 wheel parcels van, 'The Hearse'?

Well, I’d be up for three MGWR 6-wheel thirds (or seconds), so that’s half a minimum batch.

The glaring omission is the standard MGWR 6-wheeled third, produced in large numbers from the late 1880s to the early 1900s. These were extremely well built and after 1925 to be seen as far afield as Donaghadee and Bangor (several on loan for some years to the BCDR), Bantry, Baltimore, Rosslare, Fenit, Harcourt Street, Youghal and Birr, as well as every corner of their home MGWR territory - right up to the very end of six-wheelers being used to carry passengers in 1963. In fact, the very last set of six-wheelers still in passenger use that year was the spare set for rush hour and Youghal weekend excursions, based in Cork. And most of these were MGWR types, not GSWR. For any layout 1925-63, they’re essential.  Fun fact; in 1964, the Record Society managed to persuade the powers that be to allow one - by now withdrawn for a year - to be used for society members going over to Albert Quay from Glanmire for an “outing”, as the society still quaintly refers to its jaunts….  (visions of the participants being “let out for the day”, closely monitored by men in white coats, with an all-important kit of compulsory medication at hand…..) As I digress and ramble; old age permits such things - I’ve been a member of the IRRS for 56 years, so I remember Drumcondra and the even-then venerably antiquated ethos of meetings, where instead of a member “giving a talk” or “presentation” about something, they “gave a Paper” on the subject. Yes, even then it sounded antique, and I attended many such “papers”….. and then started “giving” them in later life. It’s a wonder the jax wasn’t called a “flushing water closet”…. Jayyysus. If I’m ever advertised to the gricing fraternity as “giving a paper” on something, fer gawds sake don’t go - I wouldn’t! BUT; to revert. If he can do a MGWR 3rd, I’ll take three to start things going.

It was on a wooden board at first, on Maedb at least, according to jhbsenior (possibly only for works grey photo?) but soon replaced by a steel sheet.  As for transfers applied over rivets, anyone who’s ever tried applying a waterslide transfer to an uneven surface on a model will have a lexicon of associated rude words……!

That’s what he gets for not specifying O gauge instead of N…..