30th March 2010

This morning the externally completed Tarmac living van was rolled out for the first time. This will enable it to ‘acclimatise’ following fitting of a new roof and covering, and the new exterior cladding. Phil Anderson has re-signwritten the name panels and as I write, Gordon Mewes is painting the interior… As I’ve mentioned before in the blog, I hope to pair the van up with Peter Walker’s Sentinel S6 steam lorry, which is in the same livery. All credit here to Shaun Kay, the museum joiner, who has carried out the extensive work on the van to make it suitable for use around the museum. I’ll try and post a full report on the blog in due course – this will appear on the links, to the right hand side of the page you are looking at now (there are some other items that you can download there already, and I am working on a museum stocklist which will also appear there soon).