radish1us Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) N Edited February 13, 2021 by radish1us 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Another beauty. Really impressive work and a tribute to the unsung hero's who did the job. I imagine those pans were pretty heavy when full. You wouldn't want it sloshing over the top! Great paint and I like the graffiti on the back. I wonder if the driver also picked up what the Horse dropped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radish1us Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) On 1/5/2021 at 9:36 PM, Pete in Lincs said: N Edited February 10, 2021 by radish1us 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radish1us Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) On 1/5/2021 at 9:36 PM, Pete in Lincs said: I Edited February 10, 2021 by radish1us 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roginoz Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Another great build of an essential service vehicle back in the day. We've still got one of those old pans, sans lid, which Mother Bear uses to keep fertiliser in.......still being used for the job it was [almost] designed for. It's heavy enough empty, Lord knows how heavy it would be with a full load......... Rog 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 22 minutes ago, radish1us said: Nah, the horse apples were left on the road for those that used to grow roses My Mum tells of having to scoop them up for her Dads' garden. I hadn't realised they were carried on the head. Rust must have been a worry as they got older. These must have been big blokes. I remember when I was a nipper, the dustmen hoisting metal bins onto their shoulders. They deserved their Christmas half a crown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl42 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Another outstanding model! Took me a little bit to figure out how it worked, but your later post made it all, uh, clear. I would think a single "event" was all that was needed to learn to inspect those pans very carefully. 3 hours ago, radish1us said: For those that have NEVER heard of a ‘long drop toilet’, click on the following link and just see what it is. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=long+drop+toilet Some of us in the states are quite familiar with the long drop. Pit toilets, a.k.a. vault toilets, are common in state and national parks here. Mind you, they are no longer employ a painted board with a smaller hole covering a larger hole... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swralph Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Great modelling.😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radish1us Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) S Edited February 9, 2021 by radish1us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 That is brilliant, I recall the night cart operating in my Grandmas area when I was a kid. A lorry by then & no fancy sliding doors but the principle was just the same as has been mentioned. A beautiful piece of modelling. The pin striping looks fantastic. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Black Knight Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 A most unusual subject indeed 1, some years ago I was asked, and did build a horse-drawn hearse 2. My grandfather told me that in France in WW1 such wagons were called 'Honey wagons' and their latrine hole was the 'Honey pit'. He was a US soldier and he said these names confused the 'eck out of the French and British soldiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busnproplinerfan Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Learned a lot from reading all this. It's to nice for dunny work. Guess this is when it still had the new smell. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Congratulations on such a wonderful model,its a beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors54 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Clive James has a brilliantly funny description of the dunny man coming to grief in volume one of his autobiography Unreliable Memoirs, they were truly unsung hero's. Wonderful model, my hat off for your scratch building skills. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdo Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Beautifully scratch built and very unusual! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Yet again, 'Like'. Lots. 👍 Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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