dps[22] - crafts

Having spoken to the sign-writer [Sarah Jarman] at the table just by the entrance, my eye was drawn to this display by the item on the top right.
That's what is often referred to as a "Tin Turtle" , more properly, an armoured simplex, dating from The Great War [1914-18] - I'm somewhat familiar with a 12" to the foot version, named "Mary Ann" ...

Just below is a well-waggon carrying a "nuclear flask" , which brought the 1984 testing in "Operation Smash Hit" to mind. [A class 46 + three carriages was deliberately crashed into a flask + waggon - at the weakest point, a top corner - the locomotive was travelling at approx 100mph [160kph] at the impact. There are several videos of this ...