Brush type 2 Class 30 engine replacements to become class 31

[paulbb]

Does anyone know how much this programme cost, and who exactly paid the bills? The role played by Mirlees in this is not clear from what I have read. Presumably derating - like the class 47- was out of the question as it would have resulted in a heavy expensive machine, little better than a class 20. English Electric looked like the winners in this , though they had just lost out badly in the Standard Type 4 stakes to Brush and Sulzer.

[2E Sub Shed]

In the Key Publishing magazine "English Electric - Loco Builder Extraordinaire", published in 2017, it gives after the 1st fifty had been converted in 1964, a figure of   "over £6 million for the fleet-wide replacement".

 

However in the same paragraph it states that the British Transport Commission and Mirrlees reached a financial agreement for compensation , the details of which have never been released.

Edited June 17, 2022 by 2E Sub Shed
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