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Old 11th Jun 2009, 08:01
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Originally Posted by Visual06
Does anyone know if the trams and train stock were produced on this site?
It was certainly somewhere round here. The rolling stock factory was known as "Feltham", and the owner was Union Construction Company, which was owned by and a front for the London Underground organisation, who were statutorily prevented from manufacturing themselves. The Feltham factory produced Underground train cars, trams (the "Feltham" type), and trolleybuses. It only operated in the 1920s and early 1930s. It wasn't connected to either Underground or tramway, and the output was all pulled out by steam traction engines on trailers. A bit like an aircraft factory without a runway, of which there have been a fair number as well.
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