Re: English Electric car body

[John Cleverdon <johnc@cdi.com.au>]

Chris Stratton wrote:

> <snip>
> The company was called Australian Electrical Industries (AEI). I mentioned
> somewhere before that AEI supplied electrical equipment to the BHP plant
> where I used to work, EE had supplied the original equipment when the plant
> was built in the late 50s. I have also seen equipment made by GEC-AEI so
> they had some sort of relationship. My 1971 edition of "Modern Locomotives
> in Service on the New South Wales Railways"  shows the NSW 43 class as being
> built by AEI.

I've always thought that the 43 class were built by Goninan; they have Goninan
builders numbers.
AFAIK, this is the only book which claims that they were built by AEI.

John
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