L&YR 919 1907 Wakefield Kirkgate
It took more than a little detective work to establish that this fine view was taken (circa 1907) at the eastern end of Wakefield Kirkgate Station. The subject is immaculate Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Barton Wright '6ft' class No.919. Its next call will be at Normanton and it will then be heading for Leeds or maybe diverging east at Altofts Junction and taking the lines to York. 919 was built by Vulcan Foundry in June 1887 and was withdrawn in February 1913. I'm left wondering if we can still buy Price's Gas Engine Oil?
Vic Smith has the answer; "Price’s Lubricants Limited. Manufacturers and distributors of lubricating and other oils, and greases. Belmont Works, Battersea, London,
1951 Prices developed the first multigrade oil, Energol, at its Battersea works.
1954 Increasing demand for multigrade oil led BP, part owners of Price's, to remove all the lubricating oil business to their oil refinery at Grangemouth and rebrand it as their own product"
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