Metro-Cammell
Sign in to saveAlso known as Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company, Metro Cammell
thumb|A door step plate from a unit of London Underground 1973 Stock, built by Metro-Cammell
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- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- inception
- 1863-00-00
- product or material produced
- passenger railroad car
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- Closure by Alstom
- Products
- Heavy rail
- Rapid transit
- London Underground
- Other systems
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|A door step plate from a unit of London Underground 1973 Stock, built by Metro-Cammell
Metro-Cammell, formally the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW), was an English manufacturer of railway carriages, locomotives and railway wagons, based in Saltley, and subsequently Washwood Heath, in Birmingham. The company was purchased by GEC Alsthom in May 1989; the Washwood Heath factory closed in 2005 and was demolished in early 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metro-Cammell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.