Hi,
Does anyone know the types of saddle tankers used at the ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) of Billingham, Cleveland, UK. The first article in the company news paper "Billingham Post" 14 Feb 1957 describes one as being built in 1921 No. 34 "Mersey" in service for a total of 35 years at Huddersfield & then Billingham, soon to be scrapped. The second type is described in the same paper 9 Mar 1961 as one of 18 locos, this one No. 26 again being replaced in this case with a Rolls-Royce engined diesel-hydraulic "Sentinel" loco.
I was just starting work in 1959 and can remember seeing the steam locos all around the site in their Billingham livery of Blue & Yellow. I would be very interested to know if anyone can identify the two loco types and where they may be aquired as 7mm kits if they are available and more difficult how the Blue & Yellow livery was applied ie. what did they look like, Blue boilers & Yellow saddles or what. I wasn't interested back then?
I have to poor pictures scanned from these papers but I could not post them with this topic. A long shot I know but if you worked their or have a particular interest in these types of industrial work horses I may be just lucky. I am just starting to get interested in 7mm
Does anyone know the types of saddle tankers used at the ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) of Billingham, Cleveland, UK. The first article in the company news paper "Billingham Post" 14 Feb 1957 describes one as being built in 1921 No. 34 "Mersey" in service for a total of 35 years at Huddersfield & then Billingham, soon to be scrapped. The second type is described in the same paper 9 Mar 1961 as one of 18 locos, this one No. 26 again being replaced in this case with a Rolls-Royce engined diesel-hydraulic "Sentinel" loco.
I was just starting work in 1959 and can remember seeing the steam locos all around the site in their Billingham livery of Blue & Yellow. I would be very interested to know if anyone can identify the two loco types and where they may be aquired as 7mm kits if they are available and more difficult how the Blue & Yellow livery was applied ie. what did they look like, Blue boilers & Yellow saddles or what. I wasn't interested back then?
I have to poor pictures scanned from these papers but I could not post them with this topic. A long shot I know but if you worked their or have a particular interest in these types of industrial work horses I may be just lucky. I am just starting to get interested in 7mm