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An unidentified 0-4-0ST is seen moving a large naval gun through Coventry Ordance Works to be moved to Scotoun in Glasgow where it would be married to its mountings

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An unidentified 0-4-0ST is seen moving a large naval gun through Coventry Ordance Works to be moved to Scotoun in Glasgow where it would be married to its mountings

Another naval gun is seen mounted on Midland Railway trucks whilst standing in the exchange sidings adjacent to the LNWR's Coventry Loop Line

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Coventry City Libraries
Another naval gun is seen mounted on Midland Railway trucks whilst standing in the exchange sidings adjacent to the LNWR's Coventry Loop Line

View of inside the Shell Shop at White & Poppe's factory in Holbrooks as workers are seen loading shell cases into wagons ready to be transported to be filled with explosive

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Coventry City Libraries
View of inside the Shell Shop at White & Poppe's factory in Holbrooks as workers are seen loading shell cases into wagons ready to be transported to be filled with explosive

Another photograph taken at the exchange sidings with what is thought to be a 15 inch gun barrel for one of the Royal Navy's Dreadnought class battleships

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Coventry City Libraries
Another photograph taken at the exchange sidings with what is thought to be a 15 inch gun barrel for one of the Royal Navy's Dreadnought class battleships

View of an unidentified 0-6-0ST as it hauls a gun barrel through the boundary fence between the Foleshill Railway and the LNWR's Coventry Loop Line

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Coventry City Libraries
View of an unidentified 0-6-0ST as it hauls a gun barrel through the boundary fence between the Foleshill Railway and the LNWR's Coventry Loop Line

View of the unidentified 0-6-0ST hauling the 15 inch gun barrel along the Foleshill Railway as it passes alongside the Coventry Canal

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Coventry City Libraries
View of the unidentified 0-6-0ST hauling the 15 inch gun barrel along the Foleshill Railway as it passes alongside the Coventry Canal

Close up showing the 0-4-0ST at the head of the short train carrying the 15 inch gun barrel and the special four-bogie wagon attached at this end

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Coventry City Libraries
Close up showing the 0-4-0ST at the head of the short train carrying the 15 inch gun barrel and the special four-bogie wagon attached at this end

Close up showing the opposite end of the short train which because the barrel was lighter at this end only needed to be carried by a special two-bogie wagon

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Coventry City Libraries
Close up showing the opposite end of the short train which because the barrel was lighter at this end only needed to be carried by a special two-bogie wagon

View of the short train carrying the 15 inch gun barrel which is sandwiched between two 0-4-0ST locomotives as it passes over an unknown road

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Coventry City Libraries
View of the short train carrying the 15 inch gun barrel which is sandwiched between two 0-4-0ST locomotives as it passes over an unknown road

Close up showing the 0-4-0ST which is working hard as it crosses over the bridge at the head of the short train

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Coventry City Libraries
Close up showing the 0-4-0ST which is working hard as it crosses over the bridge at the head of the short train

Close up of the short train carrying the 15 inch gun barrel which shows breech end of the gun barrel and the the length of these giant guns

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Coventry City Libraries
Close up of the short train carrying the 15 inch gun barrel which shows breech end of the gun barrel and the the length of these giant guns

View of one of the 15 inch gun barrels being transported on the Foleshill Railway as it crosses Stoney Stanton Road

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Coventry City Libraries
View of one of the 15 inch gun barrels being transported on the Foleshill Railway as it crosses Stoney Stanton Road

Peckett Class OY1 Special 0-4-0ST Works No 2085 is seen standing cold outside of Courtauld's shed on the Foleshill Railway

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RA Fox
Peckett Class OY1 Special 0-4-0ST Works No 2085 is seen standing cold outside of Courtauld's shed on the Foleshill Railway

Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST 'Nellie' Works No 2053 built in 1938 is seen standing within the confines of Courtaulds factory on 6th March 1955

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TJ Edgington
Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST 'Nellie' Works No 2053 built in 1938 is seen standing within the confines of Courtaulds factory on 6th March 1955

Peckett 0-4-0ST Works No 1722 'Rocket' is seen working a train of coal wagons through Courtaulds factory in March 1969

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TJ Edgington
Peckett 0-4-0ST Works No 1722 'Rocket' is seen working a train of coal wagons through Courtaulds factory in March 1969

Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST 'Netherton' was built in 1903 and moved to Coventry in 1916 to build the Holbrooks Lane munitions factory

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J Ryan
Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST 'Netherton' was built in 1903 and moved to Coventry in 1916 to build the Holbrooks Lane munitions factory