Cie truck

[Train model]

http://www.modelbuszone.co.uk/britbus/base_toys/ie01.htm

[Tarabuses]

That's the one that will be on sale at the show this weekend. €8 each I am told.

[jhb171achill]

Looks nice, but the green is nothing like the right shade, unfortunately......! Easy re painted though.

[heirflick]

Looks nice, but the green is nothing like the right shade, unfortunately......! Easy re painted though.

 

john - what shade shoud it be?

[Glenderg]

This perhaps?

 

[Warbonnet]

No that's a photo Richie with a bonus CIE container in the background! Where did you find that gem?

[Glenderg]

Somewhere on Flickr - I think the National Archives page had it for their "where's this" daily submission. Cant find it online now though...

[BosKonay]

One on fleabay already

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Base-BT-Models-IE-01-IE01-Leyland-Comet-Flatbed-CIE-Ireland-Irish-Bus-Support-/171157650320?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:IE:3160

[minister_for_hardship]

Green looks too bright to my eye and the eau de nil has a yellowish tinge.

[heirflick]

This perhaps?

 

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a beauty of a pic rich:tumbsup:

[108]

That looks like the north end of O'Connell Bridge with the truck heading west towards Heuston.

[Grange Castle]

That looks like the north end of O'Connell Bridge with the truck heading west towards Heuston.

 

I second that, Eden Quay heading for Batchelors Walk. Cinema where the laughter lounge now stands, ulster bank on o'connell st still there and the dead give away the clock with is still there over what is now an indian restaurant.

 

Great pic !

Edited October 25, 2013 by Grange Castle

[Train model]

This perhaps?

 

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Bolands electric van as well

[leslie10646]

Nice lorry - wonder if they'd do a GNR one (not that the GN had this lorry?).

 

Now, that Dublin bakery in the background of Richie's pic - Bolands (there's a name from Irish History Mr Dev) - obviously they never used the GN bakery container service, but would anyone be interested in a container in that red livery, suitably lettered?

 

Just thinking out loud - but not averse to getting answers!

 

Leslie

[Mayner]

That particular model of Leyland Comet truck were fairly common around Dublin in the early 60s. Moracrete used a fleet of Leyland Comet trucks sometimes with drawbar trailers for delivering blocks, paving slabs and concrete pipes from its works on the old Dolphins Barn brickworks site, on the Crumlin Road.

[Tarabuses]

Green looks too bright to my eye and the eau de nil has a yellowish tinge.

 

Don't be put off by the colours in the photo. The flash must have been too bright. I saw the model today and the green is darker.

[jhb171achill]

I saw them today too and the colours are absolutely spot on, so it must have been the photo!

[Kirley]

It looks the business to me.

 

[heirflick]

 

beautiful! where did you get the load?

[Train model]

I doubt that they had fork lifts to load and unload

[Dunluce Castle]

Wow, you can really see how different lighting effects have a huge impact on the colour of the model.

[jhb171achill]

A thing to remember with these are that the lining and snail were themselves lined, as on pre-1955 carriages. Also, there would have been a fleet number, which I think was painted in white.

[minister_for_hardship]

I doubt that they had fork lifts to load and unload

 

Don't think there were many forktrucks going around in the 50's /60's, unless in the bigger depots.

 

How would the barrels be gotten off without a loading bank, suppose with a couple of planks and rolled off / using a filled sack to cushion the fall like the beer keg deliveries?

[Mayner]

Don't think there were many forktrucks going around in the 50's /60's, unless in the bigger depots.

 

How would the barrels be gotten off without a loading bank, suppose with a couple of planks and rolled off / using a filled sack to cushion the fall like the beer keg deliveries?

 

Most of the smaller items would have been loaded/unloaded by hand most trucks doing local deliveries had a helper to assist with the loading unloading.

 

Most goods yards and some goods sheds had hand operated cranes for unloading large items like farm machinery and containers.

 

Coles cranes similar to the Corgi model were a popular 60s era railway and steelyard crane, one was parked up for many years in Mullingar goods yard. https://www.corgi.co.uk/shop/trackside/dg226000-coles-argus-6-ton-crane-yellow/

[Kirley]

beautiful! where did you get the load?

Model Shop, Belfast for the B-T Model & EFE range + Dart Castings for the barrels.

 

I don't think O'Gorman's Motor Works, Clonmel did forklift trucks but I suppose a tractor with a front loader could have been used!

[leslie10646]

I assume someone has a list of CIE lorry numbers etc?

 

The GNR did NOT have this type of truck.

 

For those of you modelling God's Blue Railway, the full list of vehicles is to be found in Sam Simpson's brilliant book "Road Services of the GNR" which tells you the fleet number and even the civil registration number! In the case of the Company cars, it even tells you who drove them!

 

Oliver Bulleid appears to have had a Chevrolet Bel Air as his Company Car when he was CME of CIE. It can be seen in a photo in the Turf Burner book.

 

Ah, the trivia you can come up with ......

[murrayec]

Hi

 

I picked up one at the BR show;-

 

 

murrayec

[Tarabuses]

Hi

 

I picked up one at the BR show;-

 

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murrayec

 

Very good, Eoin.