Photographs of Metropolitan-Vickers Locomotives for Brazil

Made:
1953 in Stockton-on-Tees
maker:
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Limited

Photographs of Metropolitan-Vickers locomotives for export to Brazil, 1953. A collection of eight silver gelatin glass plate negatives depicting locomotives for export to Brazil being loaded on ships at Stockton-on-Tees docks. The locomotives were 1072 h.p. metre gauge diesel-electrics for the Rede Mineira de Viacao. Made by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd. with final assembly by Metropolitan-Vickers -Beyer, Peacock Ltd. of Stockton-on-Tees. The locomotives depicted are numbers 901, 2001 and 2002. The negatives are numbered in ink, with references ranging between SP3145 and SP3787.

Details

Category:
Photographic Collections (Railway)
Object Number:
2006-7528
Materials:
glass
Measurements:
overall: 100 mm x 127 mm x , ,
glass plate size: 5 in x 4 in
type:
negatives
credit:
B. Bond