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GEC Traction Archive

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Photographs, Manuals and Brochures for GEC Electric Locomotives

A large number of brochures produced by AEI Ltd, AEI Traction, GEC Ltd, GEC Traction Ltd, GEC Diesels Ltd, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd, English Electric Co., English Electric-AEI Traction Ltd., Ruston Paxman and MetroTec relating to railway locomotives, mainly diesel-electric locomotives; articles from the Railway Gazette, and Engineering. Included in the series of printed material is a report from the Traction projects department which investigated Trolleybus Data and includes data and reports on various makes of electric vehicle looked at in June, 1945. Customers covered by the brochures include British Railways, New Zealand Government Railways, Bolivian Government Railways, Western Railway (India), Central Railway of Brazil, New South Wales Government Railways, Pakistan Western Railway, Malayan Railways, and Ghana Railway and Ports.

Trade literature for GEC Traction Ltd and Predecessor Companies

1 roll

Mark 3 coach BT10 bogie

1 roll

Mechanical parts drawings for South African locomotives

1 box

GEC Traction Limited manuals

22 boxes

Publications

1 box

British Rail Diesel Locomotive photographs

1 box

Johannesburg trolley bus project files

182 boxes, 9 folders, 16 volumes, 12 files

Engineering records

1 roll

Bogie co-co drawings for South Africa 7E class

84 boxes

Manuals

40 boxes, 33 drawers

Microfiche

1 roll

Axle box guide casting drawings

1 roll

Layout of GEC Traction offices, and electrical equipment details

1 box

Industrial locomotive photographs

94 rolls, 2 folders

GEC Traction Limited drawings

1 roll

British Steel Corporation diesel electric steel work shunter outlines and general arrangements

1 roll

British Steel Corporation diesel electric steel work shunter outlines

1 box

Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand photographs

9 mins 15 seconds video on 1 VHS cassette

Footage of wheelslip tests with Intercity 125

1 box

Deltics and BR locomotive photographs

1 roll

Instrument and parcels drawings for industrial locomotives

1 box

First Aid Provisions at Trafford Park, Managing the Tendering Process, Department Quality Management Review, Revisions to Codes of Practices and Commercial Department Ordering Procedure files

1 box

GEC Traction Limited negatives

1 roll

Bogie drawings for Brazil Steel Railway

1 box

British Rail EMU photographs

1 box

GEC Traction Limited, Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway System, Chloride Technical Limited, Liverpool Polytechnic and the Institution of Electrical Engineers technical reports

1 box

3 Phase locomotive packaging, Channel Tunnel VHST Inverter, Locomotive Drive Development, 3 Phase Drives for EMU and Harmonic Measurements Combined Test EMU technical files

1 box

South African Railways and Harbours 10E1 and E3 electric locomotives project files

8 boxes, 1 volume

Reports

1 box

Industrial locomotive photographs

1 file

GEC Traction Limited Company Health and Safety Policy file

1 roll

South African Railways mechanical parts

1 box, 5 volumes, 4 files

Order books

1 roll

Wheel, axle and tyre assembly and motor bogie arrangements

1 box

GEC Traction Limited and GEC Transportation Projects Ltd technical reports

1 roll

South African Railways electric loco layouts

6 folders

Ordering schedules

36 boxes

Photographs

1 box

India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan and China photographs

1 box

Australia photographs

1 box

Manuals for various companies

1 box

Preston Works photographs

1 box

English Electric Company Limited diesel electric schedule of apparatus files

1 box

Pre British Rail Diesel Locomotive photographs

1 box

Overseas railways photographs

27 mins 30 seconds video on 1 Betacam SP tape

Footage of the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway

1 box

GEC Traction photo albums

1 roll

General outlines and arrangements and mechanical parts of diesel hydraulic industrial locomotives