374-588 GWR Hawksworth Second Corridor 'Test Car 4' BR RTC (Original) DW1501927 1-48-Scale Scale 1:43

Scale 1:43

The locomotive has also the necessary electrical installation to provide heating and lighting on passenger services

This motor drive unit fits neatly beneath the turntable assembly and uses a belt-driven DC motor system to rotate the bridge accurately between indexed positions

the technical problems with the 265H were never fully resolved

374-588 GWR Hawksworth Second Corridor 'Test Car 4' BR RTC (Original) DW1501927 1-48-Scale Scale 1:43Frederick W. Hawksworth was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), succeeding Charles Collett in 1941, and his coach designs were the final evolution of passenger stock built by the GWR, being designed at the end of World War Two and entering traffic from 1947 onwards. With the Nationalisation of Britains railways in 1948, construction continued under BR and the final examples were outshopped during the 1950s. Intended