Catalogue description GEC Traction's Trafford Park and Preston works collection of archive material

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Details of The GEC Traction Collection
Reference: The GEC Traction Collection
Title: GEC Traction's Trafford Park and Preston works collection of archive material
Description:

Includes photographs from the GEC group's constituent companies, including English Electric, Robert Stephenson & Co, Vulcan Foundry, Metropolitan-Vickers, Hawthorn-Leslie and W G Bagnall. The subjects include locomotives built for railways in Britain and overseas, with detailed views of components and workshop scenes.

 

A schedule of this recently arrived collection has been produced.
Date: c1925-1978
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

GEC Traction
Physical description: approx 13,600 negatives; Approx 5,250 prints; 210 lanternslides
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
  • Transport engineering

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