Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company

[1] BRC&W made not only carriages and wagons, but a range of vehicles, from aeroplanes and military gliders to buses, trolleybuses and tanks.

Nevertheless, it is as a builder of railway rolling stock that the company is best remembered, exporting to most parts of the new and old worlds.

It supplied vehicles to all four of the pre-nationalisation "big four" railway companies (LMS, SR, LNER and GWR), British Rail, Pullman (some of which are still in use) and Wagons-Lits, plus overseas railways with diverse requirement including Egypt, India, Iraq, Malaya, Mandate Palestine, South Africa and Nigeria.

The company even built, in 1910, Argentina's presidential coach, which still survives, and once carried Eva Perón.

[2] They led the design and production of the Cromwell tank in liaison with Rolls-Royce and Rover on the Meteor engine.

BRCW makers plate, on display in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
Compartment of luxury saloon coach built for Palestine Railways in 1922, now preserved at the Israel Railway Museum in Haifa
British Rail Class 33 at Swanage
DMU on the Belgrano Sur Line in Buenos Aires , Argentina (1966)