Image ID: 11183

Model Electric Locomotive, Mills Drive, Newark, 1972

Courtesy of Douglas Arundel

Mills Drive off Farndon Road
Newark on Trent
England

Model electric locomotive overhauled by Arundel and Co; engineers of Newark. Pictured outside the company's workshop on Mills Drive off Farndon Lane the loco is on its way back to Lord Gretton's estate at Stapleford Park near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, where it hauled visitors around the park on a miniature railway. Douglas Arundel was born in Newark on 22nd November 1924. His father, Edgar, was Chief Chemist at Cafferata and Co, the Newark gypsum mining and brick-making company and Douglas, when he attended the Magnus Grammar School in Newark, excelled at mathematics and the sciences. After leaving school Douglas undertook a five year apprenticeship at Worthington-Simpson Ltd., pump manufacturers of Balderton near Newark. Alongside his technical work at Worthington-Simpson

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