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NAMEPLATE "SIR WILLIAM A. STANIER, F.R.S.". T...

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NAMEPLATE SIR WILLIAM A. STANIER, F.R.S. . T...
NAMEPLATE "SIR WILLIAM A. STANIER, F.R.S.". This classic nameplate was carried on the left hand side of the LMS Class 8P 'Princess Coronation' class 4-6-2, LMS 6256, built at Crewe in December 1947 with a double chimney, smoke deflectors and in lined black livery. It was Crewe Order E464. Named at Euston station on 17th December 1947, it spent its life hauling the LMS and BR crack expresses on the West Coast Main Line. Shedded latterly at Camden, then Crewe North it was finally withdrawn on 12th September 1964 and cut up by Cashmores of Great Bridge in December (if any locomotive should have been preserved, this one surely should!). The nameplate is cast brass, 7'6" long, face-polished and repainted only, with a totally ex-loco back. As stated by the official letter from BRB (Residuary) Limited which accompanies the plate, this nameplate was displayed for many years in Stanier House, Birmingham, HQ of the London Midland Region. It was accompanied on display by an aluminium plaque stating this to be the case; this is also available to the purchaser. Extra holes drilled into the plate to fix it to the wall of Stanier House have now been professionally repaired so you would not know they had ever been there. It does of course honour Sir William Arthur Stanier, the famous Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LMS, 1932-44. He received a Knighthood in 1943 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society the following year. The other nameplate, rightly so, is in the National Railway Museum. The purchaser of this plate will own, in my opinion, one of the top half dozen nameplates and has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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