Lot 201

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Brass Steam Locomotive Nameplate ABERDEEN COMMONWEALTH.

As carried by Bulleid designed ex SR Merchant Navy class Pacific 4-6-2 No. 35007 built at Eastleigh works in June 1942. The centre badge is of vitreous enamel but is a replacement and not original.

Allocations included Salisbury, Weymouth and Nine Elms from where it was withdrawn in July 1967. 

Cut up at Buttigieg’s, Newport, South Wales 04/68. 

The Aberdeen shipping line was formed in 1825. In 1932 Shaw, Saville & Albion bought the Aberdeen Line, and this was incorporated into the Aberdeen Commonwealth Line. The Aberdeen title was dropped in 1957, the company dissolved and all ships scrapped.