This van as an ex-LMS(NCC) 12 ton van from the 2400 series. A hundred of these LMS vans were imported from the parent company to replace wagons lost during World War 2, when the NCC's York Road headquarters was heavily damaged by air raids.

Ours in offered in Ulster Transport Authority livery, which they bore after the nationalisation of the NCC in 1948. Being a fitted van, it is in a distinctive livery to highlight this fact. Photos (and memory!) show the livery these vans carried as near-orange and we have tried to replicate this. In fact, most were very dirty in their latter days ans if this van sells well, a weathered version might be offered later.

They were seen in goods trains on UTA and CIE lines until about 1965, when UTA goods traffic largely ceased.