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This locomotive was purchased new from the makers, Hudswell Clarke, in 1900 by Powell Duffryn for use in the company's collieries in South Wales. At the time of nationalization in 1948 it passed to the National Coal Board and finished its working days at the Coed Ely Coking Plant, Llantrisant, in 1974, when it was presented to the Museum by the Coal Board. Restoration of the locomotive to its original Powell Duffryn livery was undertaken by young people engaged on a Work Experience Programme. An article in the Locomotive Magazine in 1903 concerning this very locomotive stated that 'The workmanship and finish of this engine is of the best and reflects great credit on the builders who make a speciality of locomotives intended for industrial use'. Some 80 years later after a life-time of arduous work moving wagons around a colliery its present condition shows how true that comment was. (Source: Welsh Industrial & Maritime Museum Guidebook, 1984).