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Lot 169
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Cast Iron Worksplate from a Corp of Army Engineers WW2 USA 0-6-0 tank locomotive USA/TC No 4376 built by Davenport as works number 2525 in April 1943. It arrived in the UK in November/December 1943 via South Wales where it was retained under USA/TC control passing through the USA/TC Newport Workshops for weather boarding. The loco was loaned at various points to the docks authority and even to the GWR to supplement a number of those already officially on loan to the Cardiff Valley's Division Wales before storage at Duffryn Isaf sidings. The loco was further loaned to the docks authority returning to the USA/TC at Ebbw Junction but by the 8th of September 1944 where after inspection it was despatched to an embarkation port for shipping to Europe though it did work briefly again on the docks in South Wales. It was shipped in November 1944 as part of a batch of 45. Disposal began in 1946 with SNCF taking a number into stock. By 1947 a total of 77 were in use on the French Railways including 4376. It was purchased by SNCF in 1948 becoming their number 030TU55 allocated to the Ouest Region. The locomotive was withdrawn from Belfort Depot by 1970.
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