Title
Mechanical parts for Class B goods engines; Class A, C and D tank engine; passenger engine and tender; and a Somerset & Dorset Joint Line name plate and painting diagram
Reference
GEC/2/2/30/2
Production date
1874 - 1924
Creator
- Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co LtdBiographyBiography
The Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Company Ltd of London, Chippenham and Kingswood (Bristol) was renamed for simplification the Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co Ltd in 1935. The company were manufacturers of power and mechanical signalling equipment, compressed air and vacuum brakes, rectifiers and rectification apparatus, power operated tub handling plants for the mining industry, brakes for road transport, and pneumatic control equipment. From the 1950s to the 1970s overseas subsidiaries were created in Australia, South Africa and Australasia. In 1979 the Westinghouse Group was acquired by the Hawker Siddeley group as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Scope and Content
The roll contains c 15 waxed linen drawings by Midland Railway Locomotive Drawing Office, Derby of mechanical parts for Class B goods engines;
Class A, C and D tank engine; passenger engine and tender; Somerset & Dorset Joint Line name plate and painting diagram and drawings by Dubs & Co and Avonside Engine Co Ltd.
Extent
1 roll
Archival history
This roll of drawings was compiled as a reference roll by Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co Ltd
Level of description
FILE
Repository name
National Railway Museum, York
Associated people and organisations
- Somerset & Dorset Joint Line RailwayBiographyBiography
The Somerset and Dorset Railway was originally founded from an amalgamation of the interests of the Somerset Railway (commenced 1854) with the Dorset Railway (commenced 1860) from 1862. In 1875, following financial problems, the lines were leased jointly to the Midland Railway and the London & South Western Railway, to become the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Company. The company remained a separate, jointly managed enterprise following the major amalgamations in 1923 (between the London Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway) and nationalisation in 1948 (between the London Midland Region and the Southern Region). The company was finally closed by British Railways in 1966.
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