Description:Bagnall's trade card showing a locomotive type E2473, made for Huntley and Palmer Ltd. This is a "Fireless loco". It is powered by a high pressure and temperature water boiler, realeasing to the cylinders at about 200 lbs/square inch.
W.G. Bagnall Ltd. was established in 1870 in Castle Street. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. Eventually Bagnall's was manufacturing powerful locomotives for some of the world's most important railways.
In 1951 Bagnall's merged with Brush Traction Ltd., and in 1959 the firm was sold to W.H. Dorman Ltd. Two years later they were taken over by the English Electric Co. and production at the Castle Street works ceased.