RMweb Premium Legend Posted November 26, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2017 (edited) Just a heads up I was in Tesco Port Glasgow today and came across this bookazine @£6.99 . Looking at the locomotives produced by EE , a great evocative name. LMS twins Class 20 Class 23 Class 40 DP2 Deltics Class 37 Class 31 DEMU Class 73 AC Electrics ( 83 and 86) Class 50 Exports and shunters. It’s a Key publication. Ive done little more than scan it at moment, but it looks quite comprehensive with lots of interesting pictures that I don’t recall seeing before. It does look quite fresh. Edited November 26, 2017 by Legend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 (edited) There is quite a few locomotives in that list that EE did not build/produce... Edited November 26, 2017 by Titan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 In the sense of they were built elsewhere but used EE Co power plants and electrical equipment?The DEMUs were mostly built at Eastleigh but used EE Co engines and generators, for example. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 (edited) Here's the link if anyone wants it. http://shop.keypublishing.com/product/View/productCode/SPECELEC/English%20Electric I think there is a quid off if you subscribe to a Key publication. MLI/Hornby Mag/etc., free P&P as well. Jason Edited November 26, 2017 by Steamport Southport Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 A 100-page bookazine full of nice pictures of English Electric locomotives - what’s not to like? Well, quite a lot actually. Coverage is quite patchy. Some “favourites” get plenty of coverage, whereas other significant products very little. Engines are mentioned only when describing some locomotives, there’s no account of their development history (worth seeking out an excellent series of articles on-line, which I suspect was beyond the interest or knowledge of the authors). In places the text is poor, where it looks like it has been rushed to finish to meet the publication deadline (e.g. shunters). Many of the photos are wikimedia commons licensed - good pictures, but saving the publisher royalties and leaving a gap between editor and photographer that fails to benefit the former from the latter’s subject knowledge. Given the importance to English Electric of their export models, their coverage is pitiful. Just three pages, seven images (of which five are wikimedia attributed), an incomplete customer list and concentration on those that were nearest to models built for the domestic market. Had I checked this section before buying, I would not have purchased a copy. As commonly written in those old school reports (and in comparison from other publications from this house): “could do better”. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 It's a cheap supermarket bookazine, not An Illustrated History Of English Electric. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I bought the digital copy. For £3.99 (from memory), it's not bad value. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 In the sense of they were built elsewhere but used EE Co power plants and electrical equipment? The DEMUs were mostly built at Eastleigh but used EE Co engines and generators, for example. And not even designed by EE either, and in the Class 31's case it did not even have an EE power plant when built, and even after re-engining still retained all the Brush electrical equipment, including the main generator... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted November 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2017 I'm especially disappointed by the only vague, passing reference to the Southern Trio of prototypes, who arguably did more for the development of main line diesel traction than the LMS twins did. 10203 was basically a prototype class 40, while 10201/2 pushed the performance of the EE engine up towards usable levels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted November 29, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2017 I have been in every WHSmiths for two weeks looking for this and the not dissimilar Class 50 publication that are both supposedly being stocked by said shops "in November" and can I find either of them? Nope!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted November 29, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2017 (edited) I didn't know there was a class 50 one, but I found it in Tescos. I've got it away with me to read in my hotel this week. So far pretty good I thought with some good pictures . Lots of good Green/Blue transition stuff Edited November 29, 2017 by Legend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted November 29, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2017 The Class 50 one is illustrated in the upper right corner of Irwell Press magazines (British Railways Illustrated and Bylines IIRC) with 'Available November in WHSmiths'. It's November, in fact it is almost December and WHSmiths seem to have never heard of it!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEDDYBEAR D9521 Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 The Class 50 one is illustrated in the upper right corner of Irwell Press magazines (British Railways Illustrated and Bylines IIRC) with 'Available November in WHSmiths'. It's November, in fact it is almost December and WHSmiths seem to have never heard of it!!! Got the 50 book and EE book from WH Smith’s last week had plenty Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
walrus Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Slightly off topic but sad news about the job losses / closure at the former English Electric plants in Rugby and Stafford by the current owner General Electric... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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