Re: Alstom (Paxman/Ruston/Mirrlees) Diesel Rationalisation

["Peter Corser" <peter.corser@btinternet.com>]

"ANDREW BREEN" <azb@aber.ac.uk> wrote in message
8dmlft$f3l$1@osfa.aber.ac.uk">news:8dmlft$f3l$1@osfa.aber.ac.uk...
> In article <38FEA31D.3DB92B70@mail.usyd.edu.au>,
> Greg Rudd  <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Patrick Dunford wrote:
> >> And I assume that the Deltic engines came under Paxmans, when were they
> >> dropped?
> >
> >The Deltic engines were built by napier.
>
> Designed by Napier, my leetle tree frog, designed by Napier. As great
> swallowed small over the years the Deltic engine was manufactured in
> turn by Napier, English Electric and Paxman.
>
> --
> Andy Breen ~ PPARC Advanced Research Fellow, Interplanetary Scintillation
> Solar Physics Group,  UW Aberystwyth
> "When I was young I used to scintillate
>                  now I only sin 'til ten past three" (Ogden Nash)

Just out of interest - ALSTOM has now sold off all the diesel engine
production facilities in the UK!

Peter