Image ID: 11263

Model Electric Locomotive Overhauled at Arundel and Co Engineers, Newark, 1972

Courtesy of Douglas Arundel

Mills Drive (off Farndon Road)
Newark on Trent
England

This miniature locomotive belonged to Lord Gretton of Stapleford Park near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire where it hauled visitors around the park on a miniature railway. Douglas Arundel was born in Newark on 22nd November 1924. His father, Edgar, was Chief Chemist at Cafferata & Co, the Newark gypsum mining and brick-making company and Douglas, when he attended the Magnus Grammar School in Newark, excelled at mathematics and the sciences. After leaving school Douglas undertook a five year apprenticeship at Worthington-Simpson Ltd., pump manufacturers of Balderton near Newark. Alongside his technical work at Worthington-Simpson

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