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[[image:Im1919EnV128-p540bb.jpg|thumb| 1919.]] | [[image:Im1919EnV128-p540bb.jpg|thumb| 1919.]] | ||
[[image:Im1924EnV138-p094b.jpg|thumb| 1924. Engine for the [[Buenos Aires | [[image:Im1924EnV138-p094b.jpg|thumb| 1924. Engine for the [[Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway]].]] | ||
[[Image:ImWSR-Armstrong.jpg|thumb| 1928. Engine on [[West Somerset Railway]].]] | [[Image:ImWSR-Armstrong.jpg|thumb| 1928. Engine on [[West Somerset Railway]].]] | ||
[[image:Im19290515Loco-Arms.jpg|thumb| May 1929.]] | [[image:Im19290515Loco-Arms.jpg|thumb| May 1929.]] | ||
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Note: This is a sub-section of Armstrong Whitworth.
1922 Armstrong Whitworth delivered an experimental steam turbine locomotive to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for trials. The engine used electric transmission. It was designed by Mr D. M. Ramsay, managing director of the Ramsay Condensing Locomotive Company of Glasgow (presumably the same person as involved in the North British Locomotive Co's Reid-Ramsey turbine locomotive)[1]. The engine was too heavy and did not deliver the expected improvements and was returned to Armstrong Whitworth in 1923.
1929 The group suffered heavy losses; capital reduction[2]. Two private companies formed: Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth and Company (Engineers) Ltd, and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth and Company (Shipbuilders) Ltd; the former took over the general engineering businesses at Scotswood and Gateshead and developed work with Sulzer of Switzerland on railway engines. The holding company was renamed Armstrong Whitworth Securities Company Ltd[3].
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