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Lot 159
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Cast brass tender plate SOUTHERN - as experimentally affixed to the tender sides of the two first built Bulleid Pacific locomotives 21C1 CHANNEL PACKET and 21C2 UNION CASTLE in 1941. For reasons that these first two locos were overweight, the cast brass numberplates, buffer beam plates and tender plates were not continued and the locos reverted to painted numbers/letters. Therefore, one of only four such plates fitted and we know of only one other survivor, so a rare opportunity. Size 84in x 23in.
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