British Electric Traction information

British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE...

Railway electric traction describes the various types of locomotive and multiple units that are used on electrification systems around the world. Railway...

A traction motor is an electric motor used for propulsion of a vehicle, such as locomotives, electric or hydrogen vehicles, or electric multiple unit...

England between 1902 and 1925. It was a subsidiary company of the British Electric Traction group,. Powers to build were obtained under the Middleton Light...

electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number of the carriages. An...

classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the mainline network since 1948 (i.e. British Railways and post-privatisation)...

to make 1,000 electric traction motors per year, their own motors now claimed to be equal to or superior to the American pattern traction motors previously...

The Potteries Electric Traction Company operated a tramway service in The Potteries between 1899 and 1928. British Electric Traction incorporated a new...

the television interests of British Electric Traction (trading as Associated-Rediffusion) owning 49%, and Associated British Picture Corporation—soon taken...

(in Hungarian Budapesti Értéktőzsde (BÉT)) BET plc, formerly British Electric Traction Biotechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon, a Greek vehicle manufacturer that...

A traction substation, traction current converter plant, rectifier station or traction power substation (TPSS) is an electrical substation that converts...

British United Traction (BUT) was a manufacturer of railway equipment and trolleybuses. It was established in 1946 as a joint venture between AEC and...

District Electric Traction Co was an electric tramway network serving the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The tramway was a subsidiary of the British Electric...

aeroplanes. It initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers, locomotives and traction equipment, diesel motors and steam turbines. Its...

Japan, starting in the 1920s, some petrol–electric railcars were produced. The first diesel–electric traction and the first air-streamed vehicles on Japanese...

GEC Traction Limited was a British industrial company formed in 1972 which designed and manufactured electric traction equipment for railway rolling stock...

subsequently acquired by The Manitowoc Company) BET, formerly British Electric Traction (acquired by Rentokil) BG Group (acquired by Royal Dutch Shell)...

nationalisation in 1948. Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, British Electric Traction (BET), became the main constituents of the country's nationalised...

Electric Traction Limited was a British electric locomotive hire company. It operated some former British Rail Class 86 and 87 electric locomotives hired...

The British Rail Class 89 is a prototype electric locomotive. Only one was built, in 1986, by British Rail Engineering Limited's Crewe Works. It was used...

metropolitan area that ran from 1953 to 1983. After being run by British Electric Traction, the JOS was nationalised by the Jamaican government in 1974....

Welsh border. The company also manufactured buses. In 1899 the British Electric Traction (BET) company acquired the assets of the Birmingham General Omnibus...

gained popularity with companies in other sectors, including the British Electric Traction (BET) Group and many municipal operators. From 1972, sales to...

were designed to minimise operating costs; British Rail also progressively increased its use of electric traction which required less maintenance than diesel-powered...

Bushmills–Giant's Causeway opened 1 July 1887. World's first use of electric traction with hydroelectric generation. Track built in street in Portrush....

Kidderminster & Stourport Electric Tramway Act of 1896. The company was established as a subsidiary of the British Electric Traction group. A Kidderminster...

The Worcester Electric Traction Company operated a tramway service in Worcester between 1904 and 1928. The Worcester Tramways Act 1901 authorised the...