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Muir Hill (Engineers) Ltd was a general engineering company based at Old Trafford, Manchester, England.It was established in the early 1920s and specialised in products to expand the use of the Fordson tractor, which in the pre-war days included sprung road wheels, bucket loaders, simple rail locomotives, and in particular in the 1930s they developed the dumper truck.
The first Muir-Hill quarry tractor arrived in 1926 for use on the granite traffic but was used on passenger trains on busy days. It gained an open-backed enclosed cab. In 1953 it exchanged components with NG 41. It was for a time used on relief passenger services with the Passenger Tractor until Shelagh of Eskdale was upgraded in 1975. Up until ...
The British Rail Class 121 is a single-car double-ended diesel multiple unit. 16 driving motor vehicles were built from 1960, numbered 55020–55035.These were supplemented by ten single-ended trailer vehicles, numbered 56280–56289 (later renumbered 54280–54289).
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Tobias Eder, who played on the German national hockey team at last year's world championships, has died following treatment for cancer, his club said Wednesday. The Eisbaeren Berlin club said Eder ...
By 2023, Muir Group comprised six subsidiaries, including construction, homes, timber systems, property development, and property investment arms, as well as owning and operating Deer Park Golf and Country Club in Livingston; [20] by this point, the company had developed £1.5 billion's worth of commercial buildings across the UK and had built ...
Tamper in Jarvis subsidiary Fastline livery.. In 2002, seven people were killed when a train derailed at Potters Bar after passing faulty and badly maintained points. As Infrastructure Maintenance Contractor for the line, Jarvis was held to be jointly responsible for the crash (along with Railtrack), with the Office of Rail Regulation declaring "Jarvis’s performance fell far short of that to ...
The Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Light Railway (WC&PR) was a 14.01-mile (22.55 km) standard gauge light railway in Somerset, England.It was conceived as a tramway in the 1880s, opening between the coastal towns of Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon in 1897 and completed to Portishead in 1907.