Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Financial services Credit, hire purchase, leasing, etc, services
  • Transport equipment production Motor vehicle production
  • Transport equipment production Railway locomotive, rolling stock & components production & repair

Notes:

Established in 1860 as Gloucester Wagon Co Ltd by a group of local businessmen to make railway wagons. Reconstructed in 1888 as Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd. Believed to be the first rolling stock builder to offer deferred purchase method of selling. Built underground railway trains from 1920s and sometime also motor buses. 1930s established Gloucester Wagon Hiring Ltd, a wagon leasing business. 1961 acquired by Winget Ltd to form Wingets Gloucester Ltd. Latterly focused on making bogies, rolling stock undergear, etc.

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