Former type publicly listed Industry Engineering Subsidiaries Martin & King Founded 1898 Ceased operations July 15, 1996 | Traded as ASX: CLY Defunct 15 July 1996 Successor Evans Deakin and Company | |
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Number of locations GranvilleKelsoSomertonEagle FarmRosewater |
Sydney aec regal iv clyde engineering
Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products.
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- Sydney aec regal iv clyde engineering
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- Products
- Commonwealth Railways
- New South Wales
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Commonwealth Railways Australian National
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- Mining
- New Zealand
- Other non rail related products
- Manufacturing Facilities
- References
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. 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. In March 2001 Evans Deakin was taken over by Downer Group to form Downer EDi.
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Products
Amongst the classes of locomotives built by Clyde Engineering were:
Commonwealth Railways
New South Wales
South Australia
Tasmania
Commonwealth Railways / Australian National
New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
Western Australia
Mining
New Zealand
Queensland
South Australia
New South Wales
Other non rail related products
Manufacturing Facilities
Because of capacity constraints, in the 1990s Clyde leased Australian National Industries' Braemar factory to fulfill its order for FreightCorp 82 class locomotives.