Regular readers will know I love the Tri-ang Giraffe wagon. Enough to have aquired 20 of them over the years, but thanks to a post of Facebook, I find that there is a prototype, of sorts.
It seems that The Great Eastern Railway once had to transport a stuffed giraffe from Harwich docks, and came up with this loading diagram to get it within their loading gauge. OK, the animal was both dead, and wrapped in canvas, so no ducking under bridges, but it's not bad.
The griaffe can now be seen in Ipswich museum, and there is a short video about it here.
4 comments:
I believe Langley make a 4mm scale giraffe, and I'm sure you could find a suitable wagon...
Do NOT encourage me... :-)
Think of the magazine article that would come from it!
I had. If I can get approval to use the drawing, it could work...
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