FRED TAYLOR (1875-1963)
143
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PETERBOROUGH. Circa 1935.
40x50 inches, 101
1
/
2
x127 cm. The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd., London.
Condition B+: creases in margins and image; restoration along vertical and horizontal folds.
[700/1,000]
TERENCE CUNEO (1907-1996)
144
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TRACK LAYING BY NIGHT / BRITISH RAILWAYS. Circa 1955.
39
3
/
4
x50 inches, 101x127 cm. Waterlow & Sons Limited, London & Dunstable.
Condition B: sharp crease through lower left corner; tear through right margin into image; tears and minor
losses at edges; abrasions in image. Paper.
Born into a family of artists, Cuneo was a masterful painter of railroad images, locomotives and
military themes. He served as the official artist for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953. Many of his
paintings were turned into posters for the British Railway. Art For All p. 150, Le Train p. 75.
[1,500/2,000]
TERENCE CUNEO (1907-1996)
145
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FORGING AHEAD / BRITISH RAILWAYS. Circa 1955.
39
1
/
2
x49 inches, 100
1
/
4
x124
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.
[3,000/4,000]
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