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Discussie in 'Steam Traction' gestart door Martin Perry, 7 feb 2020.

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    Weren't the scrap merchants obliged to return the copper firebox (for recycling to overhead cable?) at that time though? In which case its value would be immaterial to them, in fact a cost to them if anything for extra admin etc.
     
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    I don't know whether this is fact or urban myth.
     
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    I remember seeing a contemporary photo in one of the magazines of a few engines in a line, but only the fireboxes standing on the trailing coupled wheels and Bissel trucks remained. There was a suggestion that the fireboxes would be returned to BR for use in cables for overhead electrification work. As the engines were Bulleid Pacifics, I rather had my doubts.
     
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    That was Buttigiegs I believe, 34032 being one so treated.
    There may have been a clause in their purchase agreement from BR that stipulated the firebox return for all locos without realising the material differences.

    ... edit, maybe Cashmores;

    https://railphotoprints.uk/p627804957/h552435DF#h552435df
     
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    Could be. At over fifty years I don't think I trust my memory.

    Mind you, these days that goes for fifty minutes too!
     
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    That's Buttigiegs.
     
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    I don't think that the copper fireboxes were returned to BR as the price paid reflected whether or not the firebox was copper. I'm sure that the fireboxes would sent to a different recycling site than the iron and steel. Hence them sitting on a separate pile in a scrapyard.
    Mind you I still feel sad at those pictures of those perfectly good locomotives sitting awaiting their fate......
     
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    Steel is easy to cut, copper needed a specialist, hence not uncommon to see fireboxes piled up in the yards.
    Doesn’t explain the Bulleids though.
     
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