Marklin 48931 - Fyffes Bananen Refrigerator Car

Prototype: Two-axle refrigerator car with a brakeman's cab. Privately owned car painted and lettered for "Fyffes" Bananas, used on the Dutch State Railways (NS). The car looks as it did at the start of the Thirties.

Model: The car models a vertical board structure. The car has non-opening refrigeration area doors.

Length over the buffers 10.6 cm / 4-3/16.

DC wheel set E700270.

The second picture of the actual cars in use was taken in 1946, not that long after the end of WW2. A ship arrived in Rotterdam Harbor (Delfshaven) with bananas from "West Indie". 10,000 Stalks of this load were intended for children in Holland.