Railway Adverts from the Modernisation Era
This website features over 1,000 trade advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s when the British railway stock businesses were busy building for the modernisation schemes.
There are adverts from rolling stock builders, and from suppliers of components used to build the vehicles. There are also adverts from other developments such as signalling, permanent way and electrification.
Most adverts were aimed at attracting more orders at home and abroad — but many also just seemed to be just a proud statement of what some firms had achieved!
Featured Advert:
300,000 for a start
An Andre Rubber Company Limited (a Silentbloc Company) advert from July 1957 for their rubber suspension which had been experimentally fitted to a corridor composite coach that had now completed over 300,000 miles in traffic.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Coaches ; Supplier: Silentbloc ; Component: Rubber Suspension
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