Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Steam locomotive model KING GEORGE V with tender

Jenkins, David J. (Model maker)

Model of Great Western Railway steam locomotive KING GEORGE V, with tender.

The KING GEORGE V was Britain's most powerful passenger locomotive at the time it was built. Designed and built by C.B. Collett at Swindon.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1992.184/13

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Great Western Railway
Association Type: Railway company

Creation/Production

Jenkins, David J.
David John Jenkins was born in 1917 at Gelligaer. He was apprenticed as a toolmaker and worked in an engineering works in Treforest until 1939. He died on 9 January 1990 in Bristol and was interred in Gelligaer.
Role: Model maker
Period: 1980-1989

Acquisition

donation, 10/1992

Measurements

Length (mm): 2112
Width (mm): 515
Height (mm): 630
stand (mm): 1620

Material

Asbestos

Location

audited

Categories

Rail Transport King George V
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