Ministry of Transport; Report into Ferries in Great Britain, 1948 - plates 4 & 5
Two more plates from the 1948 ferries in Great Britain report. The upper plate 5 looks Scottish but? - I said but thanks to info below it now looks as if this is MV Wootton built by Denny's of Dumbarton for the Southern Railway and that served as a minesweeper in WW2. And the lower plate shows two ferries that I'm sure are Mimie and Tessa two vessels introduced by the LMS Railway to allow cars on the Gravesend - Tilbury Ferry that was effectively replaced by the Dartford Tunnel in 1964. Tessa was built in 1924 by the Lytham Shipyard and Mimie in 1927 by Ferguson's of Port Glasgow. The LMS ran the ferry until nationalisation when it passed to British Railways.
Ministry of Transport; Report into Ferries in Great Britain, 1948 - plates 4 & 5
Two more plates from the 1948 ferries in Great Britain report. The upper plate 5 looks Scottish but? - I said but thanks to info below it now looks as if this is MV Wootton built by Denny's of Dumbarton for the Southern Railway and that served as a minesweeper in WW2. And the lower plate shows two ferries that I'm sure are Mimie and Tessa two vessels introduced by the LMS Railway to allow cars on the Gravesend - Tilbury Ferry that was effectively replaced by the Dartford Tunnel in 1964. Tessa was built in 1924 by the Lytham Shipyard and Mimie in 1927 by Ferguson's of Port Glasgow. The LMS ran the ferry until nationalisation when it passed to British Railways.