10-04-2023, 11:36 AM
(09-04-2023, 06:17 PM)Reckless Rat Wrote: Looking at the pics (and it's only an observation) but I see three different model/variant cars:
The first photo with the loco shows a long scuttle car with side vents (not the bonnet louvres) with short bonnet
The Green car is a short scuttle car with side vents (as above) with long bonnet
The latter red car is a short scuttle car with no side vents and the long bonnet
Hi Reckers,
Correct. The car with loco is an AE (with the seldom-found short bonnet with louvres); the car surrounded by people an AF and the green car an AG
My long-bonnet red car, PL2002, never had side vents fitted. I believe it to be a very early example - another clue being, that it had originally (now missing) on each side of the scuttle, a strip of "half-round" aluminium pinned on to continue the line of the bonnet's side hinges. Perhaps the "no-vents" specification might have been a "depression special" or possibly a "Friday afternoon" job....