The 15 Co’Co’ engines were supplied by LEW and registered with the Reichsbahn as E 251 001 to 015.
Lew Wallace | Lew Grade | Lew Ayres | Hennigsdorf | Lew Tabackin | Lew Irwin | Lew Hoad | Lew Brown | Jack Lew | Lew Stone | Lew Pollack | Lew Christensen | Lew Burdette | Richard Beebe in the original line-up of '''Lew Irwin and The Credibility Gap''' (left to right): John Gilliland | Lew Perkins | LEW Hennigsdorf | Lew Hayman | Lew Dockstader | Lew Cody | Elizabeth Van Lew | River Lew | Peter Lew | Michael Lew | Lucky Lew | Lew Worsham | Lew Stringer | Lew Sapieha | Lew Rywin | Lew Lewis | Lew Leslie |
Numbers 1001 and 1002 were built at VEB Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke (LEW); formerly Borsig Lokomotiv Werke (AEG), Hennigsdorf, and the production models at VEB Lokomotivbau Karl Marx, (LKM, formerly Orenstein & Koppel) Babelsberg.