Petrol Tank Wagon, Shell Motor Spirit (Hornby Series)
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Petrol Tank Wagon, Shell Motor Spirit (Hornby Series).jpg) Hornby Series Shell Petrol Wagon, 1928 illustration (i)
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Arch Four , Area 37 Hornby Wall (display) |
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A 1920s all-red Hornby gauge 0 "Petrol Tank Wagon (Shell Motor Spirit).
Description
Lettering is gold block capitals with a thin black outline, with the word "SHELL" flanked by the words "Motor Spirit" in smaller letters. The wagon has bright red body, base, trunions and couplings, and has an oval "Meccano Ltd. Liverpool" sticker on the tank's angled side-support. The central filler port on the top of the tank is high (as in the illustrations), but doesn't have the domed ventilator cap shown in the 1925 and 1928 catalogue images.
The wagon is located on track one (nearest the front) of shelf four.
Catalogue illustration
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History
The Shell Petrol Wagon, introduced in 1922, was one of the first two pieces of Hornby rolling stock that weren't assembled "Meccano-style" with nuts and bolts.
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