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Good day fellow modellers,I have just acquired in a job lot a special livestock wagon no 106309.Does anyone have any information regarding the origins of this model.Any information as to diagram no.& date of build etc of the actual wagon would be welcome,
Thanks in advance,Ron

Photos and company of origin would assist.

Hi Mick B,
after a week of trying to upload a photo,i ve still not succeded.How ever there is a picture on Worth Point . com. Then Enter 106309 into thejr search, and find it on Page 1 ,3rd line down.Hope this will help you to help me,Thanks again, Ron.

It looks like a NER Road van with home made windows added to me, note the different colour in that area to the window area. Never heard of any NER Special livestock vans.

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A D&S kit halfway down JW's page. I have one built one also .

It is a model of the very first Road Van, which did have windows. It's paper overlays on a wooden body - I have one somewhere.

Never used for livestock. Tatlow will give you build dates. etc.

Thanks JW & Mick B.
Photo at Shildon 1955.

I do believe that the NER produced a Special Cattle Van. I think that there was a photograph in one of The NER Records, perhaps vol2

download/file.php?mode=view&id=22593 Mick B, finally managed to up load,now hope it works,Ron

Thanks Scottie dog,I ll see what I can find, thanks Ron

This road van appears to be covered using one of the Merco printed paper sides - 'lithos' - which were available from Hamblings in my youth. Very acceptable at the time, although some of the chosen prototypes (like this one) were rather odd choices.