Clyde Engineering

Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products.

It was founded in September 1898 by a syndicate of Sydney businessmen buying the Granville factory of timber merchants Hudson Brothers. The company won contracts for railway rolling stock, a sewerage system, trams and agricultural machinery. In 1907 it won its first contract for steam locomotives for the New South Wales Government Railways. By 1923 it had 2,200 employees. After contracting during the depression it became a major supplier of munitions during World War II.

In 1950, it was awarded the first of many contracts for diesel locomotives by the Commonwealth Railways after it was appointed the Australian licensee for Electro-Motive Diesel products.Downer & Electro-Motive Diesel Sign New Agreement Downer EDi 26 June 2012 Apart from building locomotives and rolling stock, Clyde Engineering diversified into telephone and industrial electronic equipment, machine tools, domestic aluminium ware, road making and earth making equipment, hydraulic pumps, product finishing equipment, filtration systems, boilers, power stations and firing equipment, car batteries, hoists and cranes, door and curtain tracks and motor vehicle distribution.

In July 1996, it was taken over by Evans Deakin Industries.Clyde Industries Limited delisted.com.au"EDI Wins Clyde Takeover Battle" Railway Digest September 1996 page 10 In March 2001, Evans Deakin was taken over by Downer Group to form Downer EDi.Evans Deakin Industries Limited delisted.com.auAnnual Report 30 June 2001 Downer EDI

Products Amongst the classes of locomotives built by Clyde Engineering were:

Steam locomotives Commonwealth Railways 4 G class Granville 10 L class Granville 8 K class

New South Wales 10 C30T class rebuilt from C30 class Granville 45 C32 class Granville 65 C36 class Granville 5 C38 class Granville 30 D50 class Granville 160 D53 class Granville 120 D55 class Granville 25 D57 class Granville

South Australia 10 740 class Granville

Tasmania 20 Q class Granville 1 P class Granville

Diesel locomotives Commonwealth Railways / Australian National 47 GM class Granville 17 CL class Granville 6 NJ class Granville 8 AL class Rosewater 10 BL class Rosewater 15 DL class Kelso 11 AN class Somerton

New South Wales 6 42 class Granville 10 421 class Granville 20 422 class Granville 18 49 class Granville 84 81 class Kelso 58 82 class Braemar

Victoria 26 B class Granville 18 S class Granville 94 T class Granville 75 Y class Granville 24 X class Granville / Rosewater 10 C class Rosewater 33 G class Rosewater / Somerton 11 A class (rebuilt from B class) Rosewater 13 P class (rebuilt from T class) Somerton 25 N class Somerton 5 H class (Modified T class) Granville

Queensland 13 1400 class Granville 10 1450 class Granville 42 1460 class Granville 29 1502 class Granville 27 1550 class Eagle Farm 12 1700 class Eagle Farm 56 1720 class Eagle Farm 27 2100 class Eagle Farm 11 2130 class Eagle Farm 8 2141 class Eagle Farm 14 2150 class Eagle Farm 45 2170 class Eagle Farm 24 2400 class Eagle Farm 18 2450 class Eagle Farm 38 2470 class Eagle Farm

Western Australia 25 A class Granville 5 J class Granville 27 L class Granville / Eagle Farm 13 DB class Rosewater 19 Q class Forrestfield 11 S class Forrestfield

Mining 9 BHP Whyalla DE class Granville 5 Hamersley Iron EMD SD50 class Rosewater 1 Goldsworthy Mining Company GML10 Kelso

New Zealand DA class NO's 1430–1439, Phase II variant of the class. Featured longer-than-standard chassis to accommodate a larger fuel tank than the earlier Phase I (1955) variant. DBR class rebuilt from Canadian-built DB class in 1980–1982. DC class rebuilt from Canadian-built Phase III DA class locomotives from 1978 to 1981.

Electric locomotives Queensland 22 3300/3400 class Kelso / Somerton

Diesel railcars South Australia 50 3000 class railcars Somerton

Electric multiple units New South Wales 205 Suburban single deck carriages

Electric tramcars

New South Wales

10 C-Class Granville (delivered 1899–1900) D-Class Granville (1890s) 70 E-Class Granville (delivered 1902–1903) 260 F-Class Granville (delivered 1899–1902) 195 R-Class Granville (delivered 1933–1935) 55 R1-Class Granville (delivered 1935)

Other non-rail related products Lawnmowers and lead batteries – 1930s Servicing aircraft, naval vessels Mining equipment Automobile parts and accessories Bulldozers Bus bodies Bridges (e.g. The Batemans Bay vertical lift bridge) Cranes Structural steel (e.g. trusses for the Peats Ferry Bridge) Air cargo Lorries Filtration Systems (e.g. fume hoods, dust extractors, air filters) Roller Doors Materials Handling Equipment Automobile Assembly Paint Lines

Manufacturing Facilities Granville closed 1973 Kelso opened early 1970s, closed before 2014 Somerton Eagle Farm closed 1995 Rosewater opened 1974, closed April 1986 Forrestfield established in 1997 to assemble the Westrail Q and S classes, closed 1998

Non rail products Woodville North – Clyde Apac Industries (Air filtration systems, Lemcol materials handling systems, Selson air jacks) Revesby – B&D roller door systems Port Kembla – Clyde Carruthers Because of capacity constraints, in the 1990s Clyde leased Australian National Industries' Braemar factory to fulfill its order for FreightCorp 82 class locomotives."Clyde Set to Lease Mittagong Factory" Railway Digest June 1993 page 221

References

Further reading

A History of Clyde Engineering

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