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In reply to Dave's point about the chassis plus insert (for that is what they are) being used for other purposes - watch this space! We plan a skeleton flat as built by CIE and suitable for a standard 20ft container. I might even do a model of the orange CIE container to go on it - I photographed the "preserved" RPSI one out the back of Whitehead shed! This is all a bit of distraction and nothing to do with the GNR, which is what I really want! However, if enough of you guys want enough of them, I'll oblige - sales of my previous CIE wagons are not such as to encourage me away from the home interest, where I have no trouble selling a hundred wagons of any type, including my handmade brakevans. Before the tub wagon goes ahead, I need feedback on preferred length. To date, only Dave has commented. The longer version is nearer to the prototype, but the short one looks OK? Please tell me! Thanks Leslie (An Official Reply to a Provisional Question)

Price will not exceed £26, say €35 inclusive of postage, which is getting rather expensive - I'll probably sell them a little cheaper at exhibitions, if and when I attend them. Supplying folk with an unlettered version is no problem, if they want to letter them differently. I'm not sure that the MGWR would have such a "modern" - looking van, but you are right about the convertibles, with the half-open roof. Supplies are just coming on stream and I am about to send out the first examples. Let me know your needs and how many, then I can adjust the prices in line with postage costs - more wagons usually go cheaper! Leslie

Sorry, definitely two tubs to a flat! The GNR carried these tubs two to a flat (with drop sides) specially built for the traffic in 1952. I have a photograph taken in UTA days of a goods with a string of them at the front. My CIE flat is based on a few photos taken by Joyce Topley, a senior UTA operations manager, who photographed one of these off the tracks in the 1960s! There are clearly two tubs on the lfats involved and there is a little wlakway between them, hence the stretched prototype shown earlier.