Original page created on 24/11/2022; updated on 04/10/2023.
Novateur Modèles 50009
Uhs, isothermal tank wagon for transporting dairy products.
UIC Number | Revision date |
21 87 072 8 007-7 | GCR 10.2.67 |
Home base: Paris-Batignolles |
35 g (NEM 47 to 61 g); 51 g after ballasting.
The ladders are very fine. The decoration is well applied and readable. Small flaw: on one side, the wording LES MESSAGERIES LAITIÈRES has been written too far to the right, and the last S is almost erased.
The running is good. There are no metal bearings. The wheels have 1 mm flanges; their back-to-back distance is 14.5 mm, perfectly in accordance with the NEM. The axle length is 24.0 mm.
The drawbars tend to jam in the extreme position, mainly because the return springs are too soft because too long.
See the Loco-Revue Forum.
Two original HJ ballast plates (MH hoppers) added to
increase the weight by 16 g. See the disassembled wagon with the added plates.
Quote from the Loco-Revue sheet.
The company “Les Messageries Laitières” has equipped rented chassis with isothermal tanks for the transport of milk. In addition to the tank itself, these wagons have boxes designed to accommodate to hold milk product containers (especially cream). While the tanks are of a standard 120 hl type, the chassis are of various origins but with similar useful lengths. In particular, there are Etat II, ex-Ouest, OCEM and ex-DR chassis with different dimensions: wheelbase varying from 5.80 m to 7 m and overall length ranging from 9.70 m to 10.80 m.
UIC numbering: 21 87 071 1 000-x P .Uh and 21 87 072 7/8 000-x P .Uhs.
General characteristics: capacity 120 hl (12 m3); tare weight approx. 14 t; load 14 t (12 t in S-load); speed 80 km/h (100 km/h in domestic traffic — star load for .Uh, 100 km/h with S-load for .Uhs).
As the chassis of these wagons was reformed at the end of the 1960s, the tanks were recovered and mounted in groups of three on the chassis of R9 bogie wagons (overall length 19.90 m), registered 21 87 077 4557-4 to 4576-4. These new wagons were reformed in 1982.
Photo Jean-Paul Demoy
Dimension 1 | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
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Overall length | 10 130 | 116.4 | 116.6 |
Chassis length | 9 000 | 103.4 | 103.6 |
Width | 2 580 | 29.7 | 29.8 2 |
Overall height | 3 655 | 42.0 | 43.4 |
Wheelbase | 5 800 | 66.7 | 66.7 |
Wheel diameter | 1 000 | 11.5 | 11.6 |
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Chassis used in 1960 according to Ferrovissime No. 37 1 | ||
Type | Overall length | Wheelbase |
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État II | 8 600 | 5 800 |
OCEM 30/31 | 10 000 | 6 500 |
Ex-DR | 10 800 | 7 000 |
Ouest (ex-État) | 8 620 | 5 800 |
Sud-Ouest (ex-PO) | 8 620 | 5 750 |
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Loco-Revue documentary sheets. .
For this particular model (UIC registration), the designers were obviously inspired by Jean-Paul Demoy’s photo opposite, and by the dimensions given in the Loco-Revue sheet at the bottom of the page: same UIC number, spoked wheels…
Nothing to criticize on the respect of the scale, almost perfect, except the too important overall height. The weight is low, although a small ballast plate is inserted between the body and the chassis. This plate, although perfectly invisible, is grooved in width as if it represented a floor. Prediction for a future model?