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Foxton flashback
Thought to be snapped around early 2003, preserved WCT 1964 British United Traction trolleybus No. 83 with UK Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage Works (MCCW) / Metro-Cammell Weyman 'Mark II' B42D bodywork viewed laying over in Wharf St. against the backdrop of the one of the township's premier tourist attraction, the DeMolen windmill, just prior to its completion that year and now a feature of the Te Awahou Riverside Cultural Park along with the Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom cultural centre.
Operation of preserved trolleybuses in Foxton has ceased being a Foxton visitor drawcard for some 6 years now, although the museum system's overhead is now the only trolleybus overhead to be seen on public roads in NZ's North Island.
WCT 83 EV6758 / 1964 Leyland (BUT) RETB1/1 / 509927 / Metro-Cammell Weyman B42/21D body and seating codes.
Metro-Cammell, fully the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW) was an English manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in Saltley and subsequently Washwood Heath in Birmingham. Bought by GEC Alstom in May 1989, the company was closed in 2005.
The company made trains for railways in the UK and overseas, including the Mass Transit Railway of Hong Kong, Kowloon-Canton Railway (now East Rail Line), the Channel Tunnel, the Tyne and Wear Metro and locomotives for Malaysia's Keretapi Tanah Melayu. Diesel and electric locomotives were manufactured for South African Railways, Nyasaland Railways, Malawi, Nigeria, Trans-Zambezi Railway and Pakistan; DMUs for Jamaica Railway Corporation; and DMUs for National Railways of Mexico. The vast majority of London Underground rolling stock manufactured in mid 20th century was produced by the company. It also designed and built the Blue Pullman for British Railways.
By 1926, they had changed their name again to Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company Ltd.
In 1929, the railway rolling stock business of Cammell Laird and Company was merged as Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd, the resulting company being part owned by Vickers and the Cammell Laird group.
MCCW also built bus bodies. In 1932, Metro Cammell Weymann was formed by the MCCW's bus bodybuilding business and Weymann Motor Bodies.
In the Second World War, Metro built tanks again, including the Valentine tank and Light Tank Mk VIII.
Saltley works was closed in 1962 and group administration concentrated at Washwood Heath in 1967.
In May 1989 the railway business was sold to GEC Alsthom (now Alstom) Group. The last trains to be built at the Washwood Heath plant before its closure in 2005 were the Class 390 "Pendolino" tilting trains for the West Coast Main Line modernisation.
Ex Wellington No. 83 is seen here at Foxton Beach. A weekly shoppers service was for a time run from the town to the local beach using a trolleybus from the Foxton Trolleybus Museum towing a trailer on which was mounted a diesel bus engine which drove a trolleybus motor which generated power to drive the actual trolleybus which in turn could then tow the trailer. Photo by Graeme Bennett.
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Foxton flashback
Thought to be snapped around early 2003, preserved WCT 1964 British United Traction trolleybus No. 83 with UK Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage Works (MCCW) / Metro-Cammell Weyman 'Mark II' B42D bodywork viewed laying over in Wharf St. against the backdrop of the one of the township's premier tourist attraction, the DeMolen windmill, just prior to its completion that year and now a feature of the Te Awahou Riverside Cultural Park along with the Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom cultural centre.
Operation of preserved trolleybuses in Foxton has ceased being a Foxton visitor drawcard for some 6 years now, although the museum system's overhead is now the only trolleybus overhead to be seen on public roads in NZ's North Island.
WCT 83 EV6758 / 1964 Leyland (BUT) RETB1/1 / 509927 / Metro-Cammell Weyman B42/21D body and seating codes.
Metro-Cammell, fully the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW) was an English manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in Saltley and subsequently Washwood Heath in Birmingham. Bought by GEC Alstom in May 1989, the company was closed in 2005.
The company made trains for railways in the UK and overseas, including the Mass Transit Railway of Hong Kong, Kowloon-Canton Railway (now East Rail Line), the Channel Tunnel, the Tyne and Wear Metro and locomotives for Malaysia's Keretapi Tanah Melayu. Diesel and electric locomotives were manufactured for South African Railways, Nyasaland Railways, Malawi, Nigeria, Trans-Zambezi Railway and Pakistan; DMUs for Jamaica Railway Corporation; and DMUs for National Railways of Mexico. The vast majority of London Underground rolling stock manufactured in mid 20th century was produced by the company. It also designed and built the Blue Pullman for British Railways.
By 1926, they had changed their name again to Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company Ltd.
In 1929, the railway rolling stock business of Cammell Laird and Company was merged as Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd, the resulting company being part owned by Vickers and the Cammell Laird group.
MCCW also built bus bodies. In 1932, Metro Cammell Weymann was formed by the MCCW's bus bodybuilding business and Weymann Motor Bodies.
In the Second World War, Metro built tanks again, including the Valentine tank and Light Tank Mk VIII.
Saltley works was closed in 1962 and group administration concentrated at Washwood Heath in 1967.
In May 1989 the railway business was sold to GEC Alsthom (now Alstom) Group. The last trains to be built at the Washwood Heath plant before its closure in 2005 were the Class 390 "Pendolino" tilting trains for the West Coast Main Line modernisation.
Ex Wellington No. 83 is seen here at Foxton Beach. A weekly shoppers service was for a time run from the town to the local beach using a trolleybus from the Foxton Trolleybus Museum towing a trailer on which was mounted a diesel bus engine which drove a trolleybus motor which generated power to drive the actual trolleybus which in turn could then tow the trailer. Photo by Graeme Bennett.
www.sfu.ca/person/dearmond/set/Trans_Web/M3/Wellington/We...