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Sharing many aspects of its design and features with the Passenger Luggage Vans (PLV, later designated ‘PMV’ by BR), the CCTs differed by having a pair of full width doors at each end, allowing motor vehicles to be loaded and indeed the SR applied the code ‘Covcar’ to many examples, denoting their use as covered car carriers. In addition to transporting motor vehicles and carriages, the CCTs were used to convey all manner of parcels and general merchandise and being express rated, they could run at speed and were often included as part of passenger trains. Construction continued after Nationalisation, however the final examples built had plywood sides – by this time BR had designated them as Covered Carraige Trucks (CCT). These were large vehicles with a 21ft wheelbase and construction was from a metal frame with even planking on the sides and ends. The vans remained in traffic until the 1980s, with some surviving later still, in departmental use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bachmann Branchline model is highly detailed and carries all the hallmarks of the prototype, from the distinctive roof profile found on many SR vans to the planked panelling – with ‘2+2’ planks on the sides and even planks on the doors – and angled metal framework. Ventilators were fitted along the lower part of the bodysides whilst two pairs of double doors were provided on each side of the van to aid loading and unloading – all are featured on the model including representations of the door locking mechanisms. Four ventilators were also fitted at each end, integrated into the double doors, and these too are modelled accurately. Steps are mounted separately to the solebar, below which the underframe is modelled in all its glory including brake apparatus and separate pipe runs, along with the finely detailed axleboxes into which metal wheelsets are fitted. At each end metal buffers are employed in addition to separate lamp iron brackets and metal handrails. 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Classified as the Mk1 CCT, the vehicles were essentially shorter, 4-wheel versions of the bogie Mk1 General Utility Vehicles (GUVs) and the two types shared many common features; from their body profiles, the pair of full width doors at each end, and the pairs of large loading doors on each side which allowed the vehicles to be used to convey much more than motor vehicles – namely parcels, mail and general merchandise. Being express rated, the CCTs could run at speed and were often included as part of passenger trains. Whilst their use to move vehicles declined, particularly from the mid-1960s when BR opted to use only larger vehicles on Motorail services to make loading and unloading more efficient, the CCTs remained in traffic carrying parcels and other goods and more than 800 were still in use towards the end of the 1970s. The last revenue earning vehicles were withdrawn in 1988, but several soldiered on in departmental use and today, they can be found at many a preserved railway where they carry everything from the pushchairs of preservation's youngest enthusiasts to firefighting equipment to respond to lineside fires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Graham Farish model is highly detailed and makes a fine replica of this distinctive vehicle, from the flat sided profile to the end doors that were crucial for loading and unloading motor cars – these are moulded faithfully including hinges, door locking mechanisms, and even the safety chains are replicated in miniature. The double doors on each side are also neatly represented, complete with hinges, handles and handrails, along with the door bumpers on the doors and adjacent body panels and flush glazing is fitted to each window aperture. Ventilators and rain strips are moulded onto the roof, whilst below the solebar a full complement of brake equipment and auxiliary gear, including the battery boxes and dynamo, is present and correct. The axleboxes are finely detailed, into which metal wheelsets are fitted and metal buffers are employed too. 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