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Motor Rail and Tramcar Co

From Graces Guide
1918. Exhibit at Amberley Working Museum.

of Simplex Works, Bedford, maker of internal combustion-engined locomotives and railcars

Formed in 1911 by John Abbott as The Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd, they built petrol and diesel engined locomotives, mainly narrow gauge.

WWI Over 900 locos were supplied for use on temporary military supply railways.

1919 Manufactured petrol-fuelled railway vehicles including a shunting engine for handling full-sized railway rolling stock.

1931 Name changed to Motor Rail

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