Overseas railways photographs
- PART OF:
- Photographs
- Made:
- 1947-1955
- part of archive:
- GEC Traction Archive
- maker:
- GEC Traction Limited
This box contains numbered envelopes generally containing a print and a negative for English Electric Company Limited and AEI Traction. Some negatives are glass and some are acetate (in various stages of deterioration)
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EP/H/2001 - 2026
Apr 1947. Casting faults
General view of British Guiana railway coach ¾ view
Special Model Plane for GTC
Hampsfield Grange (Grange-over-Sands)
Various photos of control gear
Nov 194, special camera at TC. (Label reads: Wilkinson Manufacturing)
Failed diesel engine crankshaft bearing
Diesel locomotive on a low loader – for Egyptian Railways
EP/H/3038 - 3067
Model of proposed new offices
English Electric sequence tester for Teddington Time Delay Switch FHM/A/3
Components
EP/H/3113 - 3162
Test equipment in the factory
Model of proposed company houses
Group in front of a Canberra aircraft in June 1952
Model of a bogie frame – New Zealand Railways
Victorian Railways (Australia) “L” Class locos being built at Preston together with an 0-6-0 diesel shunter “SEC6” (1953)
EP/H/3211 - 3263
Various photos of components including failed components of a diesel engine
A train heating boiler for a diesel locomotive in Preston works
A bolster for a locomotive bogie
EP/H/3321 - 3393
Auxiliary motors
Deltic locomotive frame under construction
New Zealand Railways Class Df 2Co-Co2 diesel-electric locomotive at Preston
Frames for South Africa Class 5E locos in the factory
Diesel engine control relay with the cover removed
1500hp diesel-electric locomotive for New Zealand on a low loader from Preston works
Views inside Preston works from inside a locomotive cab
EP/H/3400 - 3499
Traction motor armature without windings on a balancing machine
Mock-up of a diesel engine
Bo-Bo diesel-electric loco for Gold Coast (Ghana) under construction at Preston
2 axle bogie with motors installed
English Electric diesel engine
Loco for Gold Coast leaving Preston works on a lorry (minus bogies)
Victoria Railways (Australia) “L” Class electric loco in Preston works
Aircraft fuselages in factory
Group on Strand Road, Preston
The Duke of Edinburgh visiting Preston works c 1955
EP/H/3500 - 3599
The Duke of Edinburgh visiting Preston works
South African Railways Class 5E loco No 1 in Preston works on test
Rhodesian Railways 1200 class locos under construction.
Gold Coast Bo-Bo diesel-electric loco
Washers with a silver 3d coin
Canberra aircraft instrument panels
Rhodesian Railways loco No 1 (1200)
EP/H/3600 - 3699
“Deltic” locomotive in Preston works c 1955
Rhodesian Railways diesel-electric locomotive 1200 on a Pickfords low-loader at Preston (1955)
Auxiliary machines
South African Railways Class 5E loco under construction
Cabling in an underframe
Rhodesia Railways 1Co-Co1 diesel-electric loco 1203 in Preston works
English Electric 510kW self-contained mobile diesel generating station for the Metropolitan Water Board leaving Preston works
EP/H/3700 - 3799
“Deltic” hauled into Preston works yard (no bogies)
Locomotives in Preston works
Bo-Bo diesel-electric loco No 1 for Jamaica at Preston
South African Railways Class 5E loco cab being manufactured
EP/H/3801 - 3895
Relay coil manufacture
Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive at Preston works for Jamaican Railways
Factory photos
EP/H/3907 - 3995
South African Railways Class 5E loco cab in factory
Co-Co diesel-electric loco 20101 in Preston works – for Malaya
Frequency monitor
English Electric 12 cylinder diesel engine & generator in Preston works
English Electric 16 cylinder diesel engine
EP/H/4005 - 4099
Canberra aircraft in factory
Malaya Co-Co loco in Preston works
Cracked relay coil for NR28 relay/NV8 magnet valve
EP/H/4100 - 4160
WH711 aircraft in factory
English Electric Preston North Works Gate
Machining a component
Un-numbered Negatives:
Hardness scales conversion graph
Plaque to the Empire Goodwill
Diesel locomotive in the works
Laboratory staff 1949
Details
- Extent:
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1 box
- Identifier:
- GEC/4/2/31