Union Carriage & Wagon
Builder's plate on South African Class 6E1 Series 7 E1862 | |
Industry | Rail transport |
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Founded | 1957 |
Founder | Commonwealth Engineering |
Headquarters | Nigel, South Africa |
Products | Rolling stock |
Parent | Commuter Transport Engineering |
Website |
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Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) is a rolling stock manufacturer in South Africa.
History
Union Carriage & Wagon was established in 1957. Initial shareholders were Commonwealth Engineering (51%), Budd Company (25%) and Leyland Motors (12%). By 1965, Budd and Metro Cammell Weymann held a combined 41% shareholding which they sold to Anglo American plc and General Mining. In December 1969, Commonwealth Engineering reduced its shareholding to 42% with the other two shareholders each owning 29%.[1][2]
In 1964, UCW delivered its first electrical locomotives to the South African Railways, the South African Class 5E1, Series 2.[3] The Class 5E1 was also the first electrical locomotive to be produced in quantity in South Africa.[4] In 1976, UCW received its first Asian order for twenty Type E100 electric locomotives for Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), based on a GEC design. In addition, the TRA E1000 push-pull trainsets were also manufactured jointly by UCW, Tang Eng Iron Works of Taiwan and Hyundai Rotem of South Korea.[5]
In 1974, UCW entered the international market with orders from Angola and Zambia.
Rolling stock for Gautrain is assembled at the UCW plant in Nigel under a partnership agreement between Bombardier Transportation and UCW.[6][7][8]
In 1987, Commonwealth Engineering Parent company ANI sold its shareholding to Malbak Limited.[9] In October 1996, the business was sold to Murray & Roberts.[9][10] In February 2013, UCW was purchased by Commuter Transport Engineering.[11]
See also
- Category:Union Carriage & Wagon locomotives
References
- ↑ Dunn, John (2008). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 2 1955-1966. Dural: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 188–209. ISBN 1877058424.
- ↑ Dunn, John (2010). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 3 1966-1977. Dural: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 92–106. ISBN 1877058734.
- ↑ Histoty Union Carriage & Wagon
- ↑ South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
- ↑ 台灣鐵路火車百科:台鐵、高鐵、捷運(第三版),蘇照旭 著,人人出版2014年2月出版( ISBN 9789865903404
- ↑ "assembly process at Union Carriage and Wagon Partnership". Gautrain. 16 October 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
- ↑ "Renewed hope for jobs in Nigel as Union Carriage and Wagon Partnership (UCWP) starts assembling Gautrain vehicles". 10 September 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
- ↑ Radebe, Jeff (11 September 2009). "Address at the Union Carriage and Wagon Partnership's (UCWP's) 10M4 launch". Department of Transport. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
- 1 2 Dunn, John (2013). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 5 1985-2012. Dural: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 13–15, 203–219. ISBN 9781922013521.
- ↑ UCW Murray & Roberts
- ↑ South Africa's CTE acquires Union Carriage & Wagon International Railway Journal 4 February 2013
External links
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- Last archived version of official website (May 2014)
- Commuter Transport Engineering official website
Coordinates: 26°23′54″S 28°29′08″E / 26.398421°S 28.485672°E