'The Colonel': A brass locomotive nameplate, 95cm long x 17cm high, together with the related maker's oval brass number plate for 1073, Hudswell Clarke & Co., Leeds, dated 1914, 33cm wide, accompanied by a photograph of the locomotive taken in 1964. (3)

Provenance: The property of a gentleman, acquired circa 1980, thence bequeathed to the vendor.

Footnote: The Colonel was a 0-6-0 locomotive, named after Colonel William Harrison, Chairman of the Grove Colliery at Brownhills in Staffordshire. It is believed to have been bought directly from the Leeds-based engineering firm Hudswell Clarke and Co. Ltd in 1914, and this is borne out by the date on the maker's plaque, also bearing its number 1073. The Colonel continued in service at Grove until 1963 when it moved to Coppice Colliery at Heath Hayes for a few months before transfer to Granville Colliery in November 1963. The Locomotive was scrapped shortly after Granville Colliery closed in November 1979. The twins to those in the present lot are held at Chasewater Railway Museum in Brownhills. The vendor's late husband who acquired the plate in circa 1980 was a keen and discerning collector of mining, railway and transport memorabilia and original artefacts.