More Pre-Grouping Wagons in 4mm - the D299 appreciation thread.

[Compound2632]

 

[Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of Midland Railway Study Centre Item 14287.]

[Compound2632]

Report on progress with lettering the Cambrian wagons:

 

[MikeOxon]

On 12/09/2022 at 20:46, Compound2632 said:

 

[Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of Midland Railway Study Centre Item 14287.]

so they had Bank Holidays on Saturdays in those days.

[Compound2632]

5 minutes ago, MikeOxon said:

so they had Bank Holidays on Saturdays in those days.

 

Saturday was a working day. 

Edited September 14, 2022 by Compound2632

[Rowsley17D]

19 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Saturday was a working day. 

 

There was no such thing as a weekend, either.

[Compound2632]

11 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said:

There was no such thing as a weekend, either.

 

Just Sunday: church in the morning, dinner, pious reading, church in the evening.

 

Saturday had become a half-day for many workers by the 1870s, I think, if the rise of Association football is anything to go by.

[Penlan]

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Saturday had become a half-day for many workers by the 1870s, I think, if the rise of Association football is anything to go by.

Many shop workers however worked all day Saturday, Thursday was a half day, indeed my late Father in-law played for one of the Worcestershire teams that were known as the 'Early Closers' on Thursday's before WW2, he ran the line (linesman) at one of the pre-war Wembley Finals too. 
Many of us are old enough to remember that only the Paper Shop was open on a Sunday morning too. 

Edited September 15, 2022 by Penlan

[wagonman]

In some towns early closing was on Wednesday. In much of rural Germany, shops still close early on Saturdays – and all day Sundays. On the Norfolk coast most shops are open 7 days a week!

 

 

[MR Chuffer]

52 minutes ago, Penlan said:

Thursday was a half day

And then there was Sheffield Wednesday....

[Tim Dubya]

On 14/09/2022 at 18:11, MikeOxon said:

so they had Bank Holidays on Saturdays in those days.

 

Thank trade unions for weekends, a 40 hour working week, holiday with pay and generally not get killed at work

[Dave Hunt]

When I joined the RAF in 1966 a lot of people had Wednesday afternoons off for sporting activities but Saturday was a working day. At Christmas it was usual to finish early on Christmas Eve and most people had Christmas Day off but January 1st was a working day. A few years later things began to change a bit.

 

Dave

[phil_sutters]

7 hours ago, wagonman said:

In some towns early closing was on Wednesday. In much of rural Germany, shops still close early on Saturdays – and all day Sundays. On the Norfolk coast most shops are open 7 days a week!

 

 

A few shops here still close early on Wednesday or don't even open, but they are open on Saturday. There was a tradition that butchers had Mondays off. My Dad as a parish priest usually took Mondays off having had his busiest day on Sunday.

Interestingly most of our charity shops open on Sundays. Most independent shops close on Sundays, but some of the chains, like Superdrug, Shoe Zone, M & Co and WHS are open as well as the supermarkets - Boots doesn't.

P.s. this is horribly off piste!

[57xx]

Down in the New Forest, I remember Wednesdays as being half day closing.

[Nick C]

12 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

When I joined the RAF in 1966 a lot of people had Wednesday afternoons off for sporting activities

 

When I was at University in the early 2000s we had the same - which meant that Wednesday afternoon was a good time to make use of the labs while they were a bit quieter...

[Grahams]

On 15/09/2022 at 22:19, Dave Hunt said:

When I joined the RAF in 1966 a lot of people had Wednesday afternoons off for sporting activities but Saturday was a working day. At Christmas it was usual to finish early on Christmas Eve and most people had Christmas Day off but January 1st was a working day. A few years later things began to change a bit.

 

Dave

When I started work in a factory in 1972, we worked 5 days 8 hours every week. Christmas Eve was a working day all day, right through to the 80s. How much output took place on Christmas Eve is questionable and we were allowed to go home early (3 ish). The atmosphere on that day was great. 

The shop floor engineering unions started successfully to negotiate for earlier finishes on Fridays during that period. 

[Compound2632]

Idly browsing Ebay I saw this:

 

 

 

Not something I'm tempted by, but can anyone give the story? Sutherland Models is not a name I've come across before - it suggests a Highland Railway specialist (as does the Ross-shire address, see below), though Cotswold rings a bell.

 

It seems to be a plastic kit:

 

 

 

of some antiquity:

 

 

Edited September 18, 2022 by Compound2632

[Andy Hayter]

Stephen

you links come out as black screens.

[Compound2632]

17 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said:

Stephen

you links come out as black screens.

 

Odd. They're cut'n'paste rather than embedded links. I've tried re-pasting the images. Here's a link to the Ebay item.

Edited September 18, 2022 by Compound2632

[Darryl Tooley]

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

It seems to be a plastic kit:

All the ones that I've seen have a plastic body and whitemetal underframe.

 

From memory this range dated from late 70s and there were only ever about half a dozen wagon kits in the range.  The ones I remember, having bought them, are LNER Longfit and Fish Van,  HR Meat Van and NBR van (below).

 

 

 

D

[Nick Holliday]

On 15/09/2022 at 17:06, wagonman said:

In some towns early closing was on Wednesday. In much of rural Germany, shops still close early on Saturdays – and all day Sundays. On the Norfolk coast most shops are open 7 days a week!

 

 

Back in the sixties, my father was a member of the AA and received their handbook, which listed thousands of towns and villages. I could spend many hours looking through it, as, apart from listing garages, it contained details, as I recall, of population and Early Closing days, very useful to know the latter if visiting a strange town, at least in those days. Where I lived it was normally Wednesday, so as a youngster I was amazed to see that elsewhere it might be Tuesday or Thursday, and sometimes even Monday or Friday. I wish I’d hung on to one, by I imagine they were binned a long time ago.

[jamie92208]

Her in France we ihave many shops that close 1 day a week still plus most clise for the sacred purpose of lunch, often 12 till 2.

 

Jamie

[41516]

Sutherland/Cotswolds kits: Ian kirk did the moulds for the plastic parts.  A little bit from Ian himself:

 

 

(I have the body for a HR meat van in the pile of odds and ends to be looked at 'one day' as well as two LNER Pipe/Longfits and a Fish van acquired through various job lots).

 

Edited September 19, 2022 by 41516

[Compound2632]

[Welchester]

On 16/09/2022 at 01:06, phil_sutters said:

My Dad as a parish priest usually took Mondays off having had his busiest day on Sunday.

 

Most RC priests take Mondays off. My RC colleague in the hospital always played golf on that day. If required for anything, he explained that he would be on a course, and if pressed further, that it was for handicapped clergy.

[Compound2632]

Some Great Western benches, in primer, from a Langley etch:

 

 

These are for a club layout, Erlegh Quay - BR(W), 1955 - that we are exhibiting at the club's exhibition this coming Saturday: https://www.lvmrc.co.uk/september-2022-exhibition/.

 

I made a complete hash of one long bench and assembled the first couple of short benches with the planks the wrong way round. The pair of forceps I bought a few months ago were invaluable for holding small components while soldering - unlike the tweezers I had used previously, no finger pressure needed to keep a grasp on the component.

 

The small barrow went together more by luck than judgement; my luck ran out yesterday evening with the second one, so I'm working myself up for a second go. There's a luggage barrow that may be feasible but I don't hold out much hope for my chances with the undercarriages of the three trolleys - etch in the foreground. 

Edited September 20, 2022 by Compound2632
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