Quoting "malcolm.peakman@..."
<malcolm.peakman@...>:

Hi Malcom,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I realise that they were casting dippled plates
before the later batch of plates, but was just wondering about the backgrounds
being painted. I expect that in early days they would have been painted before
being fitted to locos, but I doubt if they would have bothered to paint them
during WW2 when fitting them to Austerities. I expect they came from the
foundry cleaned up, and fitted on the locos unpainted. I just thought someone
may know for sure.
Most plates with a pattern background were polished, and not painted i.e.
Hunslet etc.
A good colour photo of an ex works Vulcan Austerity 2-8-0 or 0-6-0 would be
nice, but I doubt if one exists.

Cheers.
Andy


> Hi Andy
> "Dippled" background plates were fitted long before WW2 (I have one from
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> 1906) and yes builders photos indicate that they were polished letters
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> a dark (Black?) background.
> As you say in service they were simply painted over as time to polish
> such
> things was not there! (Even nameplates were often dirty/unpolished)
> Malcolm
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> Not much activity on this site lately, but I have a question regarding
> Vulcan Foundry builders plates.
> Does anyone know if they were painted when fitted to the locos, or
> just left plain brass ? I am talking about the later WW2 onwards, that
> had the 'dippled' pattern as a background.
> They would have been covered with all sorts of paint during the life
> of the loco, but where they painted before being fitted.
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