X-Nico

4 unusual facts about English Electric


Baron Nelson of Stafford

It was created in 1960 for the businessman Sir George Nelson, 1st Baronet, for many years Chairman of English Electric.

London Underground 1967 Stock

The alternative was manufactured by English Electric, and generated 60V at 850 Hz, which was stepped up for the lighting.

Norman Gowar

After a period working with English Electric in 1963 he was appointed lecturer in mathematics at City University, London.

Queen Elizabeth Power Station

Boilers were supplied by FW, Babcock and Wilcox, and Innovative Steam Technologies; while the turbines were supplied by Brown, Boveri & Cie, English Electric and Hitachi Canadian Industries.


BHP Port Kembla D16 class

The D16 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks between 1959 and 1964.

BHP Port Kembla D35 class

The D35 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks between 1971 and 1975.

BHP Port Kembla D9 class

The D9 class were a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks between 1956 and 1960.

Churchill Falls Generating Station

In 1953 British Newfoundland Development Corporation (Brinco) was formed by the Rothschilds and six partners: two paper companies: Bowater and Anglo-Newfoundland; a manufacturer, English Electric; and mining concerns Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Frobisher.

CMC Electronics

In 1948 English Electric purchased the UK based Marconi Company and in 1953 acquired 50.6% of Canadian Marconi Company.

Compressor stall

The engine, as redesigned, went on to power landmark aircraft such as the English Electric Canberra bomber, and the de Havilland Comet and Sud Aviation Caravelle airliners.

Cranfield

However, Cranfield is still home to one of the few remaining serviceable English Electric/BAC Lightning jet fighters.

Donald Davies

Davies discusses a much larger, second ACE, and the decision to contract with English Electric Company to build the DEUCE—possibly the first commercially produced computer in Great Britain.

HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia

When originally completed in 1968 by English Electric, the scheme comprised two converter stations, at San Dalmazio in Tuscany on the Italian mainland and Codrongianos on Sardinia.

Queensland Railways 1300 class

The 1300 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Rail between 1967 and 1972.


see also

Blumfield

Garrard & Blumfield, an English electric car manufactured from 1894 to 1896

Class 50

British Rail Class 50, a British diesel locomotive built from 1967-68 by English Electric to haul express passenger trains on non-electrified main lines.

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

A British Rail Class 55 'Deltic' diesel locomotive D9006 (later 55006), built between 1961 and 1962 by English Electric, was named after the Regiment.

Gerry Fiennes

Fiennes was largely responsible for pushing for the purchase by BR of the 22 English Electric/ Napier "Deltic" locomotives in 1959 (in service 1961-82).

International Computers and Tabulators

Humphreys, a former managing director of ICL, reviews the history of the British computer industry, including the merger in 1959 of British Tabulating and the Powers Samas companies into International Computers and Tabulators, Ltd. (ICT), and the merger in 1968 of English Electric Computers Limited and ICT into ICL.

John Inglis and Company

In 1951 they completed a new plant in Scarborough, Ontario to produce the English Electric Yarrows-100 naval steam turbine under license for Canadian destroyers, including the St. Laurent-class and Restigouche-class.

Silston Cory-Wright

On behalf of Cory-Wright and Salmon, he supervised the installation of Escher Wyss turbines at Lake Coleridge, and many hydroelectric units for English Electric.