Edwardian chocolate!

Not a particularly informative post, but just some nice photos of some Edwardian chocolate bars on display in the front window of the Jubilee Confectioners in the Beamish recreated Edwardian high street

 

 

Rolls Royce 40-50hp (8 cyl) Car (Lambert & Butler Motors 12 of 25)

This is 12 of 25 in the Lambert & Butler Motors Series of Cigarette Cards issued in 1908. From the back of the card;

"This is a 6 cylinder, 40-50hp car, known as the "Silver Ghost," which, in 1907, completed under the observation of the Royal Automobile Club, a road trial of 15,000 miles, with only one involuntary stop of one minute, to turn on the petrol tap, at the 629th mile. The car holds the record (14,371 miles) for the longest run without an involuntary stop"

Hawthorn & Leslie 0-4-0ST Steam Locomotive No 2, 1911 - Part 3

This typical Edwardian industrial railway Saddle Tank Locomotive, covered previously on the blog here;

http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/hawthorn-leslie-0-4-0st-steam.html

And here;

http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/hawthorn-leslie-0-4-0st-steam_12.html

Is now complete and has returned to steam at the Tanfield Railway, a fantastic preserved railway in the north east of England. I believe the testing has gone well, and should be in regular passenger service before too long. I highly recommend a visit;

http://www.tanfield-railway.co.uk/

 

 

London & North Western Railway Poster, 1910

London & North Western Railway and Caledonian Railway poster dating from 1910 advertising services to Scotland. A reproduction of the poster can be bought from - http://www.past-reflections.co.uk/Scotland_1910.html

Parts of Edwardian electric locomotive found in pub garden

Firstly, apologies for the lack of updates recently, work and real life have got in the way but hope to get back up to speed soon - i've certainly got plenty of material!

Image - BBC

This post was sparked by a news article yesterday of the interesting discovery of cab sides from a 1904 electric locomotive found in a pub garden in Choppington, in north east England. The locomotive was North Eastern Railway number 2, an ES1 (Electric Shunting 1) BO-BO class electric locomotive built in 1904 for use on the Newcastle Quayside branch between Trafalgar Yard and the Quayside itself. Number 1 was preserved and has been covered on the blog here, with photos here;

http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/north-eastern-railway-electric.html

The identical No 2 was the subject of an attempted preservation after they were withdrawn in 1964 but unfortunately this failed, and was scrapped at the aptly named Choppington. The discovery of these panels is an amazing find, and there are photos here;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-21742168

Hopefully they will go to a good home, and nice to know that a bit of No 2 lives on. According to a post on the LNER Forum, the other cab side with NER crest was at a model railway club, but i'm unsure of it's present location

Fiat 35-40hp Car (Lambert & Butler Motors 11 of 25)

This is 11 of 25 in the Lambert & Butler Motors Series of Cigarette Cards issued in 1908. From the back of the card;

"The illustration represents an up-to-date 35-40hp Fiat Car, fitted with standard Roi des Belges side-entrance body, folding glass wind sreen, and double extension Cape cart hood. Among the Royal owners of Fiats, are the Kings of Spain, Italy, and the late King of Portugal, while the German Emperor owns a whole fleet of them"

SS 'Turbinia', 1904

Built by Hawthorns and Leslie in 1904, the SS 'Turbinia' is not the more famous experimental steam turbine boat that was built in the 19th Century by Charles Parsons, but is instead a passenger ferry. The 'Turbinia' name was very popular as it was by then strongly associated with speed and smoothness. This ferry was used in the Great Lakes of North America, later working in the West Indies, and then converted to a hospital ship for use in the Great War

North Eastern Railway Poster, 1909

North Eastern Railway poster dating from 1909, advertising services to the various ports on the River Tees. A reproduction of the poster can be bought from - http://www.past-reflections.co.uk/Tees_ports.html

Daimler 48hp Limousine (Lambert & Butler Motors, 10 of 25)

This is 10 of 25 in the Lambert & Butler Motors Series of Cigarette Cards, issued in 1908. From the back of the card;

"We here illustrate a Daimler model "H" "Daventry" detachable Limousine. This firm have had the honour to supply their cars to HM King Edward VII, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Connaught, and Princess Henry of Battenberg, as well as to many Royal personages abroad, including the King of Siam, the Nizam of Hyderabad, and the Maharajah Ranjitsinhji Jam Nawanagar"

Electric Construction Co 5hp Motor, 1912

I know very little about this small, uncredited exhibit at the Museum of Brewing at Burton-upon-Trent, apart from that it is an electric motor built in 1912 by the Wolverhampton based Electric Construction Company, who specialised in electrical plant such as motors, dynamos, switchboards etc, apart from a brief foray in 1897 when they made a small electric dog-cart (small car)