An interesting private owner wagon lettered for Crane & Company, manufacturers of fireworks and firework display contractors. Painted in an appropriate bright red livery.
All may not be as it seems however, although the fireworks factory would hve required a supply of coal for its' own heating boilers the Crane family had other business interests. Alexander Crane operated a coal merchants business from Gloucester and it is belived that this wagon worked in connection with this business, rather than the transport of fireworks.
Era 3.