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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
TERENCE CUNEO (1907-1996) FORGING AHEAD. Circa 1951. 39 3/4x49 3/4 inches. Waterlow & Sons Limited, London. Condition B+: restoration and overpainting along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears and minor restoration at edges. 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, indeed, 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.
