Clyde Engineering

{{Short description|Australian equipment and locomotive manufacturer}}

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|name = Clyde Engineering

|logo = NSWGR Locomotive 3642 d.jpg

|logo_size = 220px

|logo_caption = Clyde Engineering Builder's plate

|image = Arhs_5711_junee.jpg

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|image_caption = New South Wales D57 class locomotive in Junee in September 1961

|type = publicly listed

|traded_as = {{asx|CLY}}

|industry = Engineering

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|successor = Evans Deakin Industries (1996–2001)
Downer Rail (2001–present)

|foundation = September 1898

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|defunct = 15 July 1996

|location_city = North Sydney

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|locations = Granville
Kelso
Somerton
Eagle Farm
Rosewater

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|subsid = Martin & King}}

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Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products.

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.{{cite journal| title=Clyde publishes company history| journal=Railway Digest| date=December 1992| page=455}}

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.[http://www.downergroup.com/Investors/ASX-Announcements/View-Announcements.aspx?year=2012 Downer & Electro-Motive Diesel Sign New Agreement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107022939/http://www.downergroup.com/Investors/ASX-Announcements/View-Announcements.aspx?year=2012 |date=7 January 2014 }} Downer EDi 26 June 2012 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=442947|title=Clyde Industries door handle, 1972 - 1996|work=Powerhouse Museum}}[http://www.delisted.com.au/company/clyde-industries-limited Clyde Industries Limited] delisted.com.au"EDI Wins Clyde Takeover Battle" Railway Digest September 1996 page 10 In March 2001 Evans Deakin was taken over by Downer Group to form Downer EDi.[http://www.delisted.com.au/company/evans-deakin-industries-limited Evans Deakin Industries Limited] delisted.com.au[http://www.downergroup.com/Documents/Investors/AGM,-Financial-Results--Reports/200001/Annual-Report/2001_ANNUAL_REPORT_20080811044448.pdf Annual Report 30 June 2001] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106170546/http://www.downergroup.com/Documents/Investors/AGM,-Financial-Results--Reports/200001/Annual-Report/2001_ANNUAL_REPORT_20080811044448.pdf |date=6 January 2014 }} Downer EDI

Products

Amongst the classes of locomotives built by Clyde Engineering were:

=Steam locomotives=

==Commonwealth Railways==

4 G class Granville
10 L class Granville
8 K class

==New South Wales==

10 C30T class rebuilt from C30 class Granville
45 C32 class Granville
65 C36 class Granville
5 C38 class Granville
30 D50 class Granville
160 D53 class Granville
120 D55 class Granville
25 D57 class Granville

==South Australia==

10 740 class Granville

=Tasmania=

20 Q class Granville
1 P class Granville{{cite journal |last1=Stokes |first1=Jim |last2=Dix |first2=Andrew |title=P1 - the TGR's 2-6-2 tank locomotive |journal=Tasmanian Railway News |date=January 2008 |volume=237 |pages=13–15}}

=Diesel locomotives=

==Commonwealth Railways / Australian National==

47 GM class Granville
17 CL class Granville
6 NJ class Granville
8 AL class Rosewater
10 BL class Rosewater
15 DL class Kelso
11 AN class Somerton

==New South Wales==

6 42 class Granville
10 421 class Granville
20 422 class Granville
18 49 class Granville
84 81 class Kelso
58 82 class Braemar

==Victoria==

26 B class Granville
18 S class Granville
94 T class Granville
75 Y class Granville
24 X class Granville / Rosewater
10 C class Rosewater
33 G class Rosewater / Somerton
11 A class (rebuilt from B class) Rosewater
13 P class (rebuilt from T class) Somerton
25 N class Somerton
5 H class (Modified T class) Granville

==Queensland==

13 1400 class Granville
10 1450 class Granville
42 1460 class Granville
29 1502 class Granville
27 1550 class Eagle Farm
12 1700 class Eagle Farm
56 1720 class Eagle Farm
27 2100 class Eagle Farm
11 2130 class Eagle Farm
8 2141 class Eagle Farm
14 2150 class Eagle Farm
45 2170 class Eagle Farm
24 2400 class Eagle Farm
18 2450 class Eagle Farm
38 2470 class Eagle Farm

==Western Australia==

25 A class Granville
5 J class Granville
27 L class Granville / Eagle Farm
13 DB class Rosewater
19 Q class Forrestfield
11 S class Forrestfield

==Mining==

9 BHP Whyalla DE class Granville
5 Hamersley Iron EMD SD50 class Rosewater
1 Goldsworthy Mining Company GML10 Kelso

==New Zealand==

D^A class N^O's 1430–1439, Phase II variant of the class. Featured longer-than-standard chassis to accommodate a larger fuel tank than the earlier Phase I (1955) variant.
DBR class rebuilt from Canadian-built D^B class in 1980–1982.
D^C class rebuilt from Canadian-built Phase III D^A class locomotives from 1978 to 1981.

=Electric locomotives=

==Queensland==

22 3300/3400 class Kelso / Somerton

=Diesel railcars=

==South Australia==

50 3000 class railcars Somerton

=Electric multiple units=

==New South Wales==

205 Suburban single deck carriages

= Electric tramcars =

== New South Wales ==

10 C-Class Granville (delivered 1899–1900)
D-Class Granville (1890s)
70 E-Class Granville (delivered 1902–1903)
260 F-Class Granville (delivered 1899–1902)
195 R-Class Granville (delivered 1933–1935)
55 R1-Class Granville (delivered 1935)

=Other non-rail related products=

Lawnmowers and lead batteries - 1930s
Servicing aircraft, naval vessels
Mining equipment
Automobile parts and accessories
Bulldozers
Bus bodies
Cranes
Structural steel (e.g. trusses for the Peats Ferry Bridge){{cite web|title=Peats Ferry Road Bridge over Hawkesbury River|work=Heritage and conservation register, Roads & Maritime Services|publisher=Government of New South Wales|date=15 August 2005|access-date=14 January 2015|url=http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4309666}}
Air cargo
Lorries
Filtration Systems (e.g. fume hoods, dust extractors, air filters)
Roller Doors
Materials Handling Equipment
Automobile Assembly Paint Lines

Manufacturing Facilities

Granville closed 1973{{rp|275}}
Kelso opened early 1970s,{{rp|370}} closed before 2014{{cite web|last1=Carol|first1=Jacinta|title=Former Downer EDI site sells|url=http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/2763510/huge-plans-for-downer-edi-site/|website=Western Advocate|date=14 December 2014 |access-date=26 June 2015}}
Somerton
Eagle Farm closed 1995{{cite journal|title=Clyde Engineering's Brisbane (Eagle Farm) Plant Closes| journal=Railway Digest|date=May 1995|page=16}}
Rosewater opened 1974, closed April 1986
Forrestfield established in 1997 to assemble the Westrail Q and S classes, closed 1998

=Non rail products=

Woodville North - Clyde Apac Industries (Air filtration systems, Lemcol materials handling systems, Selson air jacks)
Revesby - B&D roller door systems
Port Kembla - Clyde Carruthers

Because of capacity constraints, in the 1990s Clyde leased Australian National Industries' Braemar factory to fulfill its order for FreightCorp 82 class locomotives."Clyde Set to Lease Mittagong Factory" Railway Digest June 1993 page 221

References

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{{cite book|last=Oberg|first=Leon|title=Locomotives of Australia 1850s-1980s|year=1984|publisher=Reed Books|location=Frenchs Forest|isbn=0-730100-05-7}}

{{cite book|last=Oberg|first=Leon|title=Locomotives of Australia|year=2007|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing|location=Sydney|isbn=9781877058547}}

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