Gallery of Drewry Rail Cars
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Rosher's Trolley, 1903
Jim on Trolley no. 1, c. 1904
Herne Hil advert 1904
Jim and brother Alf on newer version c. 1904
1905, 'Permanent Way Inspector’s Car'.
In J. H. Knight's 'Recent Progress on The Cape-To-Cairo Railway' (The Engineering Magazine, October 1905)
Drewry Rail Trolley (Indian Engineering, November 1906)
In Civil & Etherington, p. 329.
Did Drewry make this or just sell it?
Jim (foreground) with a number of cars/trolleys built to his designs.
From the Drewry Car Co. Catalogue, 1908 [Source]
1908 Railcar - Teddington Works
1908 Railcar - Teddington Works
1908 Railcar - Teddington Works
1909, Advert for Drewry Cars? Attempted takeover? (in Civil & Etherington)
1909 Drewry Advert
1909, Railway Gazette Advert
From The Indian & Eastern Engineer, August 1909
Drewry advert
The workforce building Drewry cars at BSA, 1910
The workfloor - Drewry cars in production at BSA, 1910
1910 railcar. Made for High Commissioner for humting; borrowed by Theodore Roosevelt when he visited Uganda. [Roger Farnsworth]
Staff Car, 1910
NOT a Drewry Just like the picture
East Africa, 1910
20 h.p. BSA railcar - used by the Central Uruguay Railway and the Salvador Railway Company
20 h.p. BSA railcar - used by the Central Uruguay Railway and the Salvador Railway Company
From the 1910 Catalogue
From the 1910 Catalogue
From the 1910 Catalogue
From the 1910 Catalogue
From the 1910 Catalogue
From the 1910 Catalogue
1911, For British North Borneo (in Civil & Etherington)
1911, The first Baguley-buit railcar - went to Java (in Civil & Etherington)
1912, For Gwalior State Railways, India (in Civil & Etherington)
Australia (or Burma, or Malaya), 1912
Argentina, 1912
1911 Advert
1913 Rail Car (in 'Grace's Guide')
1913 Rail Car Chassis (in 'Grace's Guide')
1913, For For South American Construction Co. (in Civil & Etherington)
1913, For Brazil. Enclosed, with roller shutters. (in Civil & Etherington)
1912, For Ceylon (in Civil & Etherington)
November, 1913, Working on the Central Railway, Peru (in Civil & Etherington)
1913, Chilean Northern Railway Drewry Depot, South America (in Civil & Etherington)
1913, Central Railway of Brazil (in Civil & Etherington)
1915 Drewry Advert
1914, For Western Australia where it had to haul 10 tons (in Civil & Etherington)
1914, For the London Brighton & South Coast Railway (in Civil & Etherington)
1914, For China (in Civil & Etherington)
Lautoka Mill, Fiji, 1915 - Partially restored photo. [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
DC581, Lautoka Mill, Fiji, 1915-16 improvements [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
DC581, Lautoka Mill, Fiji, 1915-16 improvements [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
DC581, Lautoka Mill, Fiji, 1915-16 improvements [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
DC581, Lautoka Mill, Fiji, 1915-16 improvements [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
Cane Trolley
Fiji - A Drewry inspection trolley? [ "Drewry inspection Car at Labasa, 1957. (Photograph:Peter Hodge)."]
Fiji - A Drewry inspection trolley [ "Drewry inspection Car at Labasa, 1957. (Photograph:Peter Hodge)."]
Trolley chassis [From Railways and War Before 1918 ([Mechanised warfare in colour]) by W.J.K. Davies and Denis Bishop]
Stretcher Car [From Railways and War Before 1918 ([Mechanised warfare in colour]) by W.J.K. Davies and Denis Bishop]
Red Cross Car [From Railways and War Before 1918 ([Mechanised warfare in colour]) by W.J.K. Davies and Denis Bishop]
Passenger Car [From Railways and War Before 1918 ([Mechanised warfare in colour]) by W.J.K. Davies and Denis Bishop]
1915, Baguley workers demonstrating loading of stretchers on an ambulance car, destined for the French Government and Mesopotamia.
Libya, 1916
Armoured Car
Armoured Car
1914, Cyprus ["1914: Schienenmobil der englischen Drewry Car Company Ltd. für die C.G.R. aus: The Railway Gazette, Mai 1914."]
Hand-painted!
1915, The first ladder car for electric line maintenance (in Civil & Etherington)
1915, On the Antafagusta and Bolivia Railway (in Civil & Etherington)
1916, For the War Office (in Civil & Etherington)
to France
Australia, 1919. [Robert Watson/Greg Ray]
Pakistan - still at work in the 1960s [in 'Beautiful Karachi Blog' (now defunct). "A mechanized trolley of 1960s. It was called 'Drewry Trolley'."]
1920, For India (in Civil & Etherington, p.87)
1920, 40h.p. tramcar for India (in Civil & Etherington, p.87)
Australia - A Drewry railcar
Drewry Diesel Advert
1921
Ticket on a 'Drewry'
1921 Rail Car Chassis (in 'Grace's Guide')
1921 Rail Car (in 'Grace's Guide')
1921 Rail Car (in 'Grace's Guide')
1921 - a Drewry car and trailer on the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway
1922, type R, for Burma Mines (in Civil & Etherington)
1922, type B, for Burma (in Civil & Etherington)
1922, Chilean Newspaper Van (in Civil & Etherington)
1923, Barbados
1923, 35 h.p. for Madras and Mahratta Railway (in Civil & Etherington)
1923, Turnover car for Chilean Government (in Civil & Etherington)
DC 1338 (1924), for Macknade & Victoria Mills, Queensland - order details [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
DC 1338 (1924), for Macknade & Victoria Mills, Queensland, [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
DC1338 (1924), in operation at Victoria Mill, Queensland, 1920s [Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.]
DC 1338 (1924), Queensland, used in the 1940's as a 'pay car' [John Browning Collection]
DC 1338 (1924), Queensland, restored at Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society, Albion Park, NSW [John Browning Collection]
DC 1449 (1925), in the locoshed at Goondi Mill, Queensland, 1956 [Keith McDonald]
Drewry Car Co Ad, 1926
Drewry Car Co Ad, 1926
Note the telegram address
1926 Rail Car Chassis (in 'Grace's Guide')
1927 Baguley-Drewry Tram on Ryde Pier
1927 Rail Car, India (in 'Grace's Guide')
1927 Drewry Advert
1928 Drewry Advert
Simla, India, 1927
Palestine, 1928
Columbia, 1928
1928, Patagonia
1929 Rail Car Chassis (in 'Grace's Guide')
1929 Drewry Car Co Advert (in 'Grace's Guide')
for Hong Kong, 1929
Egypt?, No date
South America, 1929
1929 Drewry Motor Coach (in 'Grace's Guide')
1929 Drewry Car Co Advert (in 'Grace's Guide')
1930 Drewry Car Co Advert
1934, 7050. Drewry 2047, built by the English Electric Co Ltd [Source]
1940
1950 Drewry-Baguley Loco at Middleton Railway Trust
1962 Drewry Car Co Advert
Portishead - A Drewry railcar from the 1920s
Portishead - A Drewry railcar trailer from 1926
A 1920 Railcar from the Spurn Railway, at the end of its life
Brochure
Brochure
Trolley with ambulance carriage
Armoured Car, 1938
