Thread: WABCO/Goodwin grader

Goodwin? As in AE Goodwin? Dad was an engineer with them.

Edit: It seems so. http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/...oodwin-graders

I can't remember if Dad worked at Ipswich before he worked at Goodwins in St Marys (western Sydney). I suppose I could ask him.

Yes, its an A.E Goodwin, looks the same as a WABCO 440 grader, data plate on the cummins engine gives an into service date of 15/11/1967

Any pics????
As a grader steerer I have a perverted interest in old graders
Andrew

AE Goodwin also were on Parramatta rd if I remember correctly, in the mid 60's. IIRC they built diesel electric Locos. I worked for a company that supplied them with pipework products

Originally Posted by RichardK

AE Goodwin also were on Parramatta rd if I remember correctly, in the mid 60's. IIRC they built diesel electric Locos. I worked for a company that supplied them with pipework products

They were. Dad moved from the St Marys factory where they built the 44 Class Goodwin-Alcos to Clyde where they were building the 48 Class locos.

Actually, thinking about it, Dad worked at St Marys and Clyde before we moved to Qld in 1960 so he probably never worked at Ipswich. Stmarys would have been about '58 or so as I remember going with him to the factory for a look and I was about 10. I remember seeing, many years later, Dad's engine driver's certificate that was required for him to drive the locos around the factory yard. He wasn't a train driver on the railways, he was a mechanical engineer.