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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
TERENCE CUNEO (1907-1996) FORGING AHEAD / BRITISH RAILWAYS. Circa 1955. 39 1/2x49 inches, 100 1/4x124 1/2 cm. Waterlow & Sons Limited, London & Dunstable. Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal fold; repaired tears in margins. Rolled out in 1951, the British Rail standard class 7s, known as the Britannia class, were mixed traffic locomotives. Fifty-five were produced between 1951 and 1954. Number 70000 pictured here, was actually called Britannia and she was the "first standard express locomotive" built for the newly nationalized British Railway company. She is depicted passing an older steam engine (what appears to be an old Great Western Railway Star Class locomotive). The visual message is clear, British Railways is forging ahead with their technology and their rolling stock. Le Train p. 66-7.
