Union Carriage & Wagon

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Union Carriage & Wagon
Industry Rolling stock manufacturing
Founded1957
Founder Commonwealth Engineering
Headquarters
Nigel, Ekurhuleni
,
South Africa
Parent Commuter Transport Engineering
Website www.ucw.co.za

Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) is a rolling stock manufacturer in South Africa.

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History

South African Class 5E1, Series 2 locomotive Class 5E1, Series 2 no. E610.jpg
South African Class 5E1, Series 2 locomotive

Union Carriage & Wagon was established in 1957. Initial shareholders were Commonwealth Engineering (51%), Budd Company (25%) and Leyland Motors (12%). [1] By 1965, Budd and Metro Cammell Weymann held a combined 41% shareholding which they sold to Anglo American plc and General Mining. In December 1969, Commonwealth Engineering reduced its shareholding to 42% with the other two shareholders each owning 29%. [2] [3] [4]

Having initially built carriages, in 1964, UCW delivered its first electrical locomotives to the South African Railways, the South African Class 5E1, Series 2. [5] The Class 5E1 was also the first electrical locomotive to be produced in quantity in South Africa. [6]

In 1974, UCW entered the international market with orders from Angola and Zambia. [7] In 1976, UCW received its first Asian order for twenty Type E100 electric locomotives for Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), based on a GEC design. In addition, the TRA E1000 push-pull trainsets were also manufactured jointly by UCW, GEC-Alsthom, Tang Eng Iron Works of Taiwan and Hyundai Rotem of South Korea. [8] In 1993, UCW formed a joint venture with Siemens Mobility, SGP Verkehrstechnik and China Steel Corporation to manufacture 216 cars (36 6-car sets) of C321 metro cars for the Bannan Line of Taipei Metro, the first of which entered service in 1999. [9]

Rolling stock for Gautrain is assembled at the UCW plant in Nigel under a partnership agreement between Bombardier Transportation and UCW. [10] [11] [12]

In 1987, Commonwealth Engineering Parent company Australian National Industries sold its shareholding to Malbak Limited. [13] In October 1996, the business was sold to Murray & Roberts. [13] [14] In February 2013, UCW was purchased by Commuter Transport Engineering. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Com-Eng to Build New Plant in South Africa Railway Transportation July 1958 page 26
  2. ↑ Comeng Sells Interest in Sth African Subsidiary Railway Transportation December 1969 page 41
  3. ↑ Dunn, John (2008). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 2 1955-1966. Dural: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 188–209. ISBN   978-1877058424.
  4. ↑ Dunn, John (2010). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 3 1966-1977. Dural: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 92–106. ISBN   978-1877058738.
  5. ↑ History Union Carriage & Wagon
  6. ↑ South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
  7. ↑ South African rail works is well experienced Rails September 1978 pages 4-6
  8. ↑ 台灣鐵路火車百科：台鐵、高鐵、捷運(第三版)，蘇照旭 著，人人出版2014年2月出版（ ISBN   9789865903404
  9. ↑ Yonkers Fighting To Save Rail-Car Jobs Archived 2020-02-16 at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times, Elsa Brenner, 25 July 1993
  10. ↑ "assembly process at Union Carriage and Wagon Partnership". Gautrain. 16 October 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  11. ↑ "Renewed hope for jobs in Nigel as Union Carriage and Wagon Partnership (UCWP) starts assembling Gautrain vehicles". 10 September 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  12. ↑ Radebe, Jeff (11 September 2009). "Address at the Union Carriage and Wagon Partnership's (UCWP's) 10M4 launch". Department of Transport. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  13. 1 2 Dunn, John (2013). Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 5 1985-2012. Dural: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 13–15, 203–219. ISBN   9781922013521.
  14. ↑ UCW Murray & Roberts
  15. ↑ South Africa's CTE acquires Union Carriage & Wagon International Railway Journal 4 February 2013

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