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Lot 16
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Cast Iron Worksplates. A rare matched pair of Vulcan Iron Works and Corp of Army Engineers worksplates from a WW2 USA 0-6-0 tank locomotive USA/TC No 1979. Built in April 1943 works number 4452. The loco arrived in the UK in November 1943 landing in Newport. The locomotive was loaned at one point to the coal industry in South Wales before a brief period of storage at Duffryn Isaf sidings along with a large number of other members of the class. 1979 was loaned to the docks authority for a period prior to despatch to France in October 1944 as part of a batch of 21. Many of the USA tanks were used by SNCF and by 1947 a total of 77 were in use on the French Railways including 1979. It was purchased by SNCF in 1948 becoming their number 030TU43 allocated to the Ouest Region. The locomotive was withdrawn from Le Havre Depot by 1970.
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