These are going to be a little awkward to fit because of the way the floor attaches to the body.
There are two brass boxes, which have captive nuts inside them to hold the floor in but they are fixed to the body not the chassis.
So I can't fix the seats to the floor in my usual manner because these boxes would be in the way.
It also means that the whole carriage will need to be painted and glazed before the roof is fixed on, which Himself is not going to like very much.
I wonder if I might have to end up splitting each into three sections?
Making these seats also got me thinking about the history of the carriage and its claim to fame in being used by the former Liberal Prime Minister.
I'd always assumed it would have been selected for him because it of it's observation car qualities to admire the Snowdonian scenery - but now I wonder whether it was chosen because the layout, with the benches facing each other, would make him feel like he was back in the Commons?
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