Drewry Car Co
of Birmingham
of 13 South Place, London, EC, and Burton-on Trent. (1914)
formerly Drewry and Sons
1906 Private company.
1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Petrol Motor Commercial Vehicles see the 1917 Red Book
1914 Manufacturers of railway motor cars for passenger traffic and permanent way service. [1]
1924 Exhibited three examples of rolling stock at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition: a narrow-gauge petrol-engined 0-4-0 locomotive; a standard 20-h.p. Drewry rail motor trolley to carry six people; a new pattern of light inspection motor trolley powered by a BSA V-twin petrol engine.[2]
1926 Tasmanian Government Railways ordered three further chassis of a larger type of the petrol driven rail coaches.[3]
1930 Built Rail Motor Car No. 11 for the Kalka-Simla Railway
1931 Built a petrol-engine driven rail coach which used a Wilson-Drewry gearbox made by Improved Gears Ltd[4]
1961 Manufacturers of railway vehicles, specialising in diesel operated rail traction cars. [5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ Engineering 1924/05/23
- ↑ The Engineer 1926/08/27
- ↑ The Engineer 1931
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE