Drewry Car Co
of Birmingham
of 13 South Place, London, EC, and Burton-on Trent. (1914)
formerly Drewry and Sons
1906 Private company.
1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Petrol Motor Commercial Vehicles see the 1917 Red Book
1914 Manufacturers of railway motor cars for passenger traffic and permanent way service. [1]
1924 Exhibited three examples of rolling stock at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition: a narrow-gauge petrol-engined 0-4-0 locomotive; a standard 20-h.p. Drewry rail motor trolley to carry six people; a new pattern of light inspection motor trolley powered by a BSA V-twin petrol engine.[2]
1926 Tasmanian Government Railways ordered three further chassis of a larger type of the petrol driven rail coaches.[3]
1929 Description of 0-4-0 petrol-driven locomotive and special wagon for the Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Co. Large quantities of teak and other timbers were floated down the Perak River for shipment at its mouth, and, in order to provide a working head of water for the Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Company, a dam was constructed across it which blocks the fairway. To effect the transference of the rafts of timber, as well as barges and other shallow draught vessels, from one side of the dam to the other, a railway of 5-ft. 6-in. gauge was laid on gradients of 1 in 22. A special wagon was moved by the locomotive on higher ground, but immersed by lowering by gravity down the inclines, the descent being controlled by brakes and by a wire rope between it and the locomotive. The rope was wound on a winch barrel on the locomotive.[4]
1930 Built Rail Motor Car No. 11 for the Kalka-Simla Railway
1931 Built a petrol-engine driven rail coach which used a Wilson-Drewry gearbox made by Improved Gears Ltd[5]
1961 Manufacturers of railway vehicles, specialising in diesel operated rail traction cars. [6]