374-586A GWR Hawksworth Full Brake BR Maroon W318W next-18-DCC This particular model depicts a

This particular model depicts a wagon fitted with disc brakes

For 60 years

the vehicles used in servicing their Liberators and Flying Fortresses were slowly changing from the standard RAF support vehicles

responsible for saving the lives of many downed airmen

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374-586A GWR Hawksworth Full Brake BR Maroon W318W next-18-DCC This particular model depicts aFrederick 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