Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 10 March 2018
| Lot 177 | A nameplate ADJUTANT, from a standard gauge 0-6-0ST built by Manning Wardle, works number 1913, in 1917. New to the War Department at the Royal Engineers depot, Purfleet, Essex. Circa 1919 it went to the Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co Ltd, Cannock Wood Colliery, Staffordshire, retaining its name and numbered 6. In 1945 it was loaned to the Littleton Collieries Ltd and was still there when the National Coal Board took over in January 1947. Subsequently transferred back to Rawnsley locomotive shed on the Cannock & Rugeley collieries system, it was sent to Cannock Central Workshops in late 1960 or early 1961 and scrapped there in March 1962. Cast brass, length 42", the front cleaned but unpainted. £600-900 |
| This lot sold for £1700. |
