Judas

On 6/16/2020 at 7:25 AM, minister_for_hardship said:

Yes, just an identical data sheet to your one and the relevant text. That's it.

As above, I don't think it got beyond being anything other than a proposal.

I don't have the full picture, out of the entire internet I found that scan. Would it be around if you sent the full page please?

On 6/9/2020 at 8:26 PM, minister_for_hardship said:

The same data sheet is in the appendix to the E. Shepherd Turfburner book.

"General Motors ...as early as May 1947, offered their services, one of the suggestions being a Type EX locomotive.. Considerable correspondence ensued, right up to Sept 1952, in the course of which it became clear that GM would not supply completed locomotives, but expected CIE to carry out work at Inchicore. In any event, the whole scheme faltered when the Government refused to make available the necessary dollars for the purchase."

You have the book? Is there a picture of the EX?

11 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Interesting.

When I cleared out the papers of the late Marcus Bailie-Gage some years ago, there was much in the way of (sadly, damp-destroyed and rat-chewed) brochures from GM and also other diesel loco manufacturers in the 1950s, all relating to their proposed sales to the GNR in Dundalk, where MBG was the Works Manager.

I didn't see one exactly like this, but I did see others not dissimilar. MBG told Senior at one stage that had the Northern government seen fit to cough up, they proposed ordering diesels to trial on Belfast - Cavan and Enniskillen. Imagine one of those things above with a string of old wooden GNR coaches - a bizarre thought...... 

A bizzare yet interesting thought, thanks for telling me!

17 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

If it's 5'3", it's almost certainly Brazilian.  I know someone who knows a bit about the railways there who might know. At 600hp, it would be a shunter. I wonder if it was built!

All I know it was proposed to CIÉ, could've been the original 121 class

Does anyone know anything about this? Especially the data sheet.