Beyer Peacock Printing Block
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A printing block with a surface image of a Beyer-Garratt locomotive section being moved by Rhodesia Railways by crane at Umtali, Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
National Railways of Zimbabwe was initially created as the Bechuanaland Railway Company on 24 May 1893. It was renamed Rhodesia Railways Ltd on 1 July 1899, after the British coloniser Cecil Rhodes, for whom areas of southern Africa, today Zimbabwe and Zambia, were named while under colonial occupation. Following independence, on 1 July 1979 Rhodesia Railways Ltd became the Zimbabwe Rhodesian Railways, and one year later on 1 May 1980 it gained its current name, National Railways of Zimbabwe.
Details
- Category:
- Railways
- Object Number:
- Y1966.24.1.587
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified), copper (metal) and paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 80 mm x 110 mm x 23 mm,
- type:
- printing block
- credit:
- Gift of Beyer, Peacock and Company Limited
