Nameplate HUNDAY as together with it matching worksplate THE HUNSLET ENGINE Co LTD LEEDS No 2250 1940. From a 0-4-0 diesel supplied to the MOD and delivered to the Admiralty Royal Naval Armament Dept Dean Hill Wiltshire and numbered Yard 85. Sold to Pollock Brown Co Ltd Northam Hampshire in 1965 and then moved to Royle Agricultural Hadnall Shropshire in 1971 then in 1980 moved to the Hunday Tractor Museum Northumberland where it was named, then to the short lived Yafford Mill Railway Newport Isle Of Wight and lastly at the Sunshine Peat Company in Northern Ireland where it was recorded as being out of use in 2006, In 2020 the equipment of the Sunshine Peat Company was sold and the engine presumed scrapped. Nameplate rectangular cast bronze measures 23.5in x 6in, worksplate oval cast brass measures 8in x 5in. Both in as removed condition.
Category:
Nameplates Diesel
Auction: November 2024, Lot: 511
Sold for: GBP£200
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