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NAMEPLATE "THE GREEN HOWARDS". This 60" cast...

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NAMEPLATE THE GREEN HOWARDS . This 60 cast...
NAMEPLATE "THE GREEN HOWARDS". This 60" cast brass nameplate was carried by the British Railways Type 5 'Deltic' 3300 H.P. CoCo diesel electric D9008 built by English Electric as Works No. 2913/Vulcan Foundry D565 in 1960. It emerged to traffic at Gateshead on 7th July 1961 and was named at Darlington on 30th September 1963 by Brigadier G.W. Eden, Colonel of the Regiment. It was renumbered 55008 Class 55 in February 1974, and finally withdrawn from Eastern Region Operating Stock on 31st December 1981, going into store at Finsbury Park, then to Doncaster Works on 23rd January 1982 where it was cut up by August 1982. One of its cabs is preserved in Oxfordshire. The nameplate has plenty of signs of its original chrome and is in ex-loco condition. A rare opportunity indeed as only the English Regiment names, of which there were 6, were cast in brass. The name commemorates the famous regiment first raised in 1688.(See Lot 101)
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