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Department of Defence
TE - HEAVY LOAD WAGON
In the early 1950s the Commonwealth Government funded the
construction of six wagons designed primarily to convey
Centurion Mk3 tanks for the Army. These wagons were owned by the
Defence Department but given NSWR wagon coding and numbering.
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When they were not in use by the Army, they were
pooled with other flat wagons for conveying of general traffic,
steel plate and channel and other heavy or unusual loads.
Additional
photos of heavy loads can be found here: Gallery
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Model Features:
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Highly detailed
Ready-to-Run HO scale model
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Injection moulded high
quality plastic chassis
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Full brake rigging and underfloor
detail
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Etched
brass details
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Semi scale turned and
blacked 9.5mm diameter metal wheels
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Genuine Kadee scale
couplers
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18” Minimum radius recommended
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TE / CENTURION - TRIPLE
PACKS
@ $ 297.00
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TE /
CENTURION PACK 'A'
TE 11142 TE 11160
TE 11195
SOLD OUT
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| TE /
CENTURION PACK
'B'
TE 11153 TE 11189
TE 11200
SOLD OUT |
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The
Centurion tanks are chained to the TE wagon. All
model tanks are individually numbered.
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TE WAGON - TWIN PACKS
@ $ 110.00
| 1950 / 60
PACK 'A'
TE 11142 TE 11160
SOLD
OUT |
| 1950 / 60
PACK 'B'
TE 11195 TE 11153
SOLD
OUT |
| 1970
PACK 'A'
TE 11200 TE 11160
SOLD
OUT |
| 1980
PACK 'A'
NZEF 11189 NZEF 11195
SOLD
OUT |
| 1980
PACK
'B'
NZEF 11153 NZEF 11200
SOLD
OUT |
TE WAGON WITH STEEL
LOAD - TWIN PACKS
@ $ 143.00
| 1950/60 PACK 'A'
TE 11195 TE 11153
SOLD
OUT |
| 1970
PACK
'A'
TE 11200 TE 11160
SOLD
OUT |
| 1980
PACK
'A'
NZEF 11189 NZEF 11195
SOLD
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Each pack includes two
TE wagons with two different steel loads chained to the deck.
TE WAGONS WITH
DISTILLER
LOAD @ $ 154.00
SOLD OUT
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Four separate chains
with etched turnbuckles are included with the model. If the
wagon is to remain permanently assembled, it’s recommended
that the chains be looped over the load and hooked on to the
eyes on the bolster, as shown in photo. If you wish to remove
the load, we’d advise the chains be glued, sparingly, across
the top surface of the Distiller to achieve a similar
appearance.
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The Heavy Load
wagons are delivered as three separate items. This was necessary
for secure packaging. The Distillation tower is hand cast in
polyurethane resin and is a solid piece. To allow the wagons to
track on model railway curves it was necessary to produce a
pivot point between the load cradle and wagon bolster. Fitting
the load onto the TE wagon is as simple as locating the two cast
spigots into the deck bolster, however due to the casting
process, the tower spigot spacing may vary by a small margin. In
this instance the couplers will meet but not close completely,
fortunately the large red drawbar will keep the wagons equally
spaced whilst loaded.
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CENTURION Mk3 - SINGLE
PACKS
@ $ 55.00 SOLD OUT
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The Centurion comes as a painted
and assembled cast resin model. It is available with four different running numbers.
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| PACK 'A'
169011
PACK 'B'
169018
PACK 'C'
169026
PACK 'D'
169032 |
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SOLD OUT
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