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Description: | Scale: 1:640. A model of the Northfleet Hope container terminal made of wood with metal and plastic fittings and painted in realistic colours. The model shows the container park with stacks of twenty and forty foot containers mainly painted white but some painted light grey, blue, green, red, brown and yellow. Depicted vehicles include yellow painted container trucks, container lorries and cars. There are two identical cranes on the quayside painted blue and loading containers onto the container ship Resolution Bay. The ship is depicted at the quayside and is painted brick red below the waterline, green above with light grey decks, white superstructure and a single green funnel with the logo for Overseas Containers Limited (OLC). On the port and starboard bows 'Resolution Bay'. On the stern 'Resolution Bay London'. The water in the topographical scene is painted a uniform dark grey, the quayside on which the cranes operate is light grey and the container park is mid grey with white markings. Other details include six lighting towers, a small section of foreshore, a large warehouse painted grey with a pitched roof, a short terrace of domestic dwellings and two barges moored alongside the quayside.
CA: AAA.
caption: Topographic model, Northfleet Hope container terminal | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | topographic models Resolution Bay Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum models (representations) Port of London Authority | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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