Subject: Blackpool C. T. railcoaches
Maker: English Electric
Bogie: English Electric (not yet fitted)
Location: Preston, Dick, Kerr works
Date: late-1933

Here can be seen the first production batch of twenty-four English Electric railcoaches which were part of the huge transformation of the Blackpool fleet in the Walter Luff era. The teak frames so clearly seen here were to prove very durable despite Blackpool's salt-laden atmosphere.

Photograph from the GEC Archive