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Engine Sheds
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Miscellaneous
The Austin Motor Company: misc_indust226
A photograph from the
www.austinmemories.com website showing the internal siding
adjacent to the Tractor Erecting Shop in the North Works in the early 1920s.
After the First World War, Austin Motors manufactured model R
tractors powered by their proven 20 hp engine and in 1921 tractor components
were also shipped to the Societe Anonyme Austin Works at Liancourt
in France for assembly. Sales of tractors were initially helped by high UK and
French import tariffs, but when the UK tariffs were removed, the cheaper
American made Fordson tractor dominated the domestic market and production of
tractors at Longbridge ceased. Production continued in France with some
tractors even being imported into the UK. This photograph shows Austin tractors
for the UK domestic market being directly loaded, by the work's electrically
powered overhead crane, onto an assortment of open wagons The wagons are headed
by what is thought to be 0-6-0ST Emily.
Robert Ferris
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