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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Coventry

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View of the Daimler Motor Company's 0-4-0ST 'Daimler' at the head of a train of specially built wagons exiting the factory's sidings

View of the Daimler Motor Company's 0-4-0ST 'Daimler' at the head of a train of specially built wagons exiting the factory's sidings. The train has been posed on one of the three munition sidings which were adjacent to the refuge loop lines seen in front of the train. The locomotive was built in 1916 by Leslie Hawthorn & Company as part of the expansion of the works designed to build aeroplanes during the First World War. The open area behind the locomotive was used as an airfield during this period. The locomotive was subsequently sold on to Thomas Walmesley & Sons Ltd of Bolton in April 1948.

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