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Electric Railway Museum

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Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Electric Railway Museum
Phone:
+44 24 7699 7397

Address:
Rowley Road, Coventry CV3 4FR, England

The English Electric Company Limited was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice of World War I at the end of 1918. It was created to make one of Britain's three principal electrical manufacturing concerns by amalgamating five businesses which, during the war, had been making munitions, armaments and aeroplanes.It initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers, railway locomotives and traction equipment, diesel motors and steam turbines. In the end its activities expanded to include consumer electronics, nuclear reactors, guided missiles, military aircraft and mainframe computers. English Electric's operations were merged with GEC's in 1968, the combined business employing more than 250,000 people.Two English Electric aircraft designs became landmarks in British aeronautical engineering; the Canberra or B-57 and the Lightning. In 1960, long before the merger with GEC, English Electric Aircraft merged with Vickers and Bristol to form British Aircraft Corporation.
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