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GWR petrol-electric railcar

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petrol engine driving a dynamo which supplied two electric motors, one on each axle. It was provided with a driving position at both ends, and could carry 44 passengers at over 30 mph (48 km/h). It was numbered 100.
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It was in use on the GWR until October 1919, when it was sold to
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Collett & Hawksworth locomotives : a pictorial history
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Experimental locomotives (1, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 1490)
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Index

British Thomson-Houston
GWR
Lever Brothers
Axle load
Maudslay
Cylinder
Cylinder
AAR wheel arrangement
Track gauge
standard gauge
GWR
British Thomson-Houston
Maudslay
Lever Brothers
Port Sunlight


ISBN
0-902888-93-5
"A New G.W.R. Petrol-Electric Railcar. | 29th February 1912 | The Commercial Motor Archive"
ISBN
0-7110-0869-8
Odd Corners of the GWR From the Days of Steam
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0 7509 3458 1
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