T - Insulated Van


T ice vans were built from 1893.

A group of boxvans were already in service coded _T__ were recoded to _TH_.

The first of the T vans were short wheel base with six wheel vans being built from the early 1900's. The six wheelers were converted to four wheels when autocoupled in the mid 1930's. The original proposal for the vans had then fitted with 'Mansard' style roofs. However this was altered to the design of constant radius curve.

The short wheelbase vans were numbered 1 - 91. The long wheelbase vans were numbered 92 - 417.

Two groups of vans, short and long wheelbase were in traffic with the code TFM_. The vans were not fitted with ice bunkers but had meat hooks fitted.

In the early 1950's a group of steel icevans were built numbered 420 - 469.

T 421 had the door widened for palletisation and T 422 featured pressed sides with 'X' pressings. Whether this was experimental or a material shortage required thinner sheet metal sides is not known.

From the early 1970's many vans were scrapped with the underframes being used for KAB_ and KMQ_ wagons. The remainder of the class were scrapped or sold by the mid 1980's.

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