This extremely attractive livery of a chocolate body with white lettering and black shading and ironwork, apart from the diagonals, was applied to wagon No. 8 in September 1911. The intertwined WM on the side door has now been altered to a particularly ornate style. It carries all three Gloucester plates, builders, owners and repairers and was registered by the GWR.
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A 20-ton tank wagon built by Charles Roberts of Wakefield in December 1935 although as delivery was probably not until January the work's plate actually gives 1936. Of the plates on the solebar that to the right of the load details reads 'For repairs advise owners 19 Parade Neath'. Next is a return empty plate 'Return empty to Hallen Marsh Sidings Avonmouth G.W.R.'. Then comes a standard Chas Roberts builder's plate and the rectangular owner's plate which still reads 'The National Smelting Co Ltd'.
courtesy HMRS AAS523



A wagon for William Vincent & Co. photographed in Gloucester in September 1898. Of seven-plank construction with side and end doors and steel underframe it looks very smart in its livery of red body with white letters shaded black. Ironwork was black apart from the diagonal braces and the likelihood is that the steel solebars were black.
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