Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 10 March 2018
| Lot 330 | A nameplate NUTTALL, from a standard gauge 0-6-0ST built by Hunslet, works number 1685, in 1931, which went new to the contractors John Mowlem & Co Ltd, for use on the King George V Graving Dock contract at Southampton between 1931 and 1935. The contract was a joint one between Mowlem and Edmund Nuttall & Sons and the locomotive's name recorded the latter's involvement. On completion of the contract the locomotive passed into Nuttall’s ownership and was used on a number of their contracts around the country. During the period 1939-1947 it was employed in works for the construction of Royal Ordnance Factories in England and Wales and also on loan to collieries in Yorkshire. In 1948 it was sold to the National Coal Board, Walsall Wood Colliery, Staffordshire. It subsequently worked at a number of other collieries in the area before transfer to Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley, where it was scrapped in August 1966. Cast brass, length 24", the front repainted. £700-1000 |
| This lot sold for £840 to commission or postal bidder number 8722. |
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