...Another SKF equipped 'Western'
A colourful advert from The Skefko Ball Bearing Company Limited featuring a painting of a Western diesel hydraulic locomotive under construction at Crewe Works where 44 of the 74 were being built. Appearing in July 1963 it notes their SKF roller bearings were being used in the final drives and SKF spherical roller bearings in the axleboxes, and that they had supplied over 2 million SKF roller bearing axleboxes to the railways of the world.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 52 ; Supplier: Skefko (SKF) ; Component: Axleboxes