English Electric Company Limited card indexes
- Made:
- 1947-1971
- part of archive:
- GEC Traction Archive
The box contains small good quality photographs, mounted on index cards from EE Publicity Department. All photos are of completed diesel or electric locomotives or emus, in sequential bundles. They are listed by group or set of photographs, not by individual photos. A sample from each bundle:
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British Railways Diesel Electric:
PND47/4 - 58/941 - EE Preston
PND47/4 - Diesel-electric loco 8003 on the LNER at March (Cambridgeshire)
PND55/1601 - View taken on the Liverpool to London run of the DELTIC diesel-electric loco hauling the Merseyside Express – DEC 12th 1955. Mr C M Cock in the driver’s cab
Publicity 59/846 - 63/436 - EE Preston
Publicity 62/222 - English Electric Type 3 1750hp Diesel-electric loco in service on the Great Eastern line near Manningtree (Essex)
M5038 (1950) - M18388 - Mixed sources
M8061 - [Negative BR 728/54] The Atlantic Coast Express near Hook (Hampshire) hauled by Diesel-electric loco 10103 powered by English Electric equipment
M18385 - [Negative Hylton Warner] 2 EE 1750hp Type 3 Diesel-electric locos of BR Cardiff Division hauling a train of 40 33½ ton iron-ore wagons into Richard, Thomas & Baldwin’s Spencer Works near Newport, Monmouthshire
V1246 - V1380 - Vulcan Foundry
V1271/14A - [Negative Vulcan] Type 2 DELTIC loco for BR in Vulcan Foundry.
E20571 - E21942 - Florence
E20571 -[Negative Florence] 350hp Diesel-electric shunting loco [no 15222]. Mechanical parts by BR(S). Power equipment by EE Co. Background BR(S) Class 2F steam loco [no 31480] as contrast
TPD125 - TPD248 - British Rail
TPD125 - [Negative BR] EE 1750hp Diesel-electric loco, BR standard Type 3 at Liverpool Street Station, London.
TFD55 - TFD119 - British Rail
TFD55 - [Negative BR] Express Freight train south of Hatfield (Hertfordshire) hauled by a Type 2 EE Diesel-electric loco [no D5907]
TP967 - TP969 - British Rail
TP967 - [Negative BR] New 2000hp Diesel-electric loco. The first of 10 2000hp loco to be supplied to the Eastern Region of BR. The loco is seen at the head of a special train which made a demonstration run from London to Norwich
32011 - JM35230 - J Mills
JM35230 - March 1966 [Negative J Mills In colour]. Four locos for BR, a 1600/600hp Electro-diesel, a Type 6 3600hp ac unit, a 1000hp Type 1 Diesel-electric, a 1750hp Type 3 Diesel-electric and an Industrial shunting loco at the Vulcan Works, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, of EE
2660/12 - 2660/18 - Hess, Fox Photos
ESN322 - ESN1192 - Embassy (dated 1953-54)
440-5 to 440-7 - Studio
Y69825 - Y69828 - Technical Press Agency
R1500/62 - R1501/62 - EE Rugby
EP/H/3698 & EP/H/3626 - EE Preston
BT/D53/115 & BT/M54/67 - EE Preston
3125 TP - Napier Acton
SJ1654/1 - A Jaanus
DY32799 - British Rail (LMS)
Subjects of the photos cover a wide range of types of locomotives from the late LMS and LNER diesel shunting locos, through the main line prototypes 10000/1, 10201/2, Deltic, and then the first Modernisation classes for BR – D8000, D6700, D200 both in their building factories and on line in service.
Africa:
African Explosives
East African Railways & Harbours - Class 90 1840hp DE locos
Ghana Railway - 750hp DE loco
Nigerian Railways - Loco on a bridge and with Royal Train
Rhodesia Railways - 1-Co-Co-1 2000hp DE loco, Class DE2
South African Railways - Electric locos, Class 5E 2000hp and also Class 5E1 at Nigel works in SA
Sudan Railways - 1850hp DE locos at Khartoum
America:
Argentina - 1000hp DE A1A-A1A loco for Buenos Aires Provincial Railway and General Belgrano Railway
Jamaica Railways - 750hp DE Bo-Bo locos at EE Preston Works
Brazil - 3000ho 3kV Electric loco built by EE/VF for EFSJ
ASIA:
India -Electric locos and EMUs for Central Railway of India – at Bombay & Madras.
Australia:
Australian Iron & Steel Ltd - 850hp Bo-Bo shunting locos – EE Rocklea, Queensland built.
New South Wales - Double-deck 8-car EMUs
Western Australia - Midland Railway – 790hp Bo-Bo locos
South Australia - 750hp Bo-Bo locos
Tasmania - 800hp Y-Class locos
Queensland Railways - 1500hp locos – 1200-Class
Victorian Railways - Electric loco no 1150
New Zealand - New Zealand Government Railways - 1012hp Co-Co loco
Preston Publicity Department, set of index cards from EE Preston in year-series: Dates 1969, 1970 & 1971:
PT/P69/1-43
PT/P69/1 - Liverpool-Southport line London Midland Region of BR. Motor-coach 28319 with a multiple-unit train between Freshfield and Formby stations in 1969
PT/P70/1-104PT/P70/1 - Split-frame traction motor typical of the type used on early Metropolitan Railway motor coaches.
PT/P71/74B`18-7-70 - Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Yorkshire. Mr D Gudgin, ex Works-Manager (locos) Vulcan Works naming the 500hp Diesel-electric 0-6-0 loco “VULCAN” at Oxenhope Station, on the K&WVR 18-7-1970. L-to-R: Mr G R Crier, Chairman of the K&WVR Preservation Society and Director of the K&WV Light Railway Ltd. Mr J Bradley of K&WVR, Mrs Peter Martin & Mr David Kay of the K&WVR.
PT/P71/81 to 84 - Aerial views of the Preston Works.
PT/P71/1-92
PT/P71/1 - Pakistan Eastern Railway. ¾ front view of one of 26 550hp Bo-Bo Diesel-electric transfer locos designed for PER seen under erection at the Birmingham Works of Metropolitan-Cammell Ltd.
Details
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1 box
- Identifier:
- GEC/4/5/12