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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
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
In store
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