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Unique Worksplate as carried by GT3

coming up in the GWRA Auction 15th November 2008

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SOLD FOR £5000

Worksplate English Electric Vulcan Foundry, alloy with green glass backing, measuring approximately 12½" x 7¼" with 3 rounded corners and one squared. Ex Gas Turbine Locomotive GT3, built at the Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, emerging to traffic in May 1961 painted in red oxide livery and then a pale brown colour. BR trials took place at the Rugby Testing Station and over Great Central metals between Leicester and Woodford Halse. It was also tested over Shap and performed quite admirably. Sadly, with the onset of dieselisation and electrification, GT3 was doomed before it could prove anything and after a mishap at Crewe where it damaged the platform edge, it was sent back to EE in 1962 for disposal. Stripped of many parts, it finally went to be cut up at Wards Salford. The plate is as it came off the loco, still clean. A stunning rarity from a one-off loco. Note: The plate from the other side is firmly entrenched in the Doncaster Grammar School Museum so this may well be the only opportunity ever, to acquire this gem.

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