The_Mayflower_14_Plymouth_5043_tender A contrast in tenders (2). The 
flat-sided tender attached to Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was designed by 
F.W.Hawksworth, the GWR's last locomotive engineer (1941 - 1947). The 
vehicle also carries 4000 gallons of water but only 6 tons of coal, and 
as it was subject to a major rebuilding, it is no longer fitted with a 
water scoop underneath. That was a device which allowed the pick-up, at 
speed, of water from troughs situated between the rails, none of which 
of course, now exist. The lion arching over a wheel emblem visible, was 
the first such device, replacing the words BRITISH RAILWAYS, carried by 
locomotives from 1948 to 1949. roger.griffiths@hotmail.com