Re: English Electric car body

["Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au>]

May I quote "A Century Plus of Locomotives" (ARHS, 1965) ...

"Six General Electric-Alco diesel-electric locomotives were ordered from
Australian Electrical Industries Pty. Ltd. in June 1954, and the first of
the batch was delivered in September, 1956, at Newcastle, where they had
been assembled by A. Goninan & Company" ...

Much the same wording appears in the old NSWGR publicity handouts from the
1960's.

As I recall (and I'm thinking of power station plant, not railways), AEI was
an offspring of the British company Associated Electrical Industries, and by
the mid 1960's it had been absorbed with English Electric into GEC-AEI, then
later simply GEC.

This British GEC has nothing to do with the (US) General Electric Company.
GE and Alco produced diesels under the name "Alco-GE" from 1940 to 1953.
The prototype units which the 43’s resembled were GE's first heavy
locomotives.

Rgds

Bill

John Cleverdon wrote in message <38091182.F6A7F629@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