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"ASEA Minor" RC-10  B0-B0 Electric built Cromar White 1974
Powered by 4 x axle mounted Sima 1.2HP compound motors E7045 was designed to pull up to 200 passengers.
The loco is over 12 feet long and probably weighs around 1 Ton.
Control is still quite primitive, with a carbon stack  reostatic speed regulator with 24 volt power from a 440 amp/hour traction battery
In its early days, it had a visit to Carshalton (circa 1975) with Roland White and his brother or Cromar White

FOXLEY

Foxely built mostly of plywood. Traction using 24V DC with a bus generator  improvised as a motor..
Roland White (of Cromar-White) driving his new creation at Carshalton in 1974
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