Baguley Cars 680

Baguley Cars 680, now preserved at the Statfold Barn Railway, is probably the oldest surviving standard gauge petrol locomotive in the world [1]. Like many industrial locomotives it had a long working life of over fifty years. It was delivered new, as a petrol or paraffin fuelled locomotive, to Richard Johnson & Nephew's armaments factory (Ministry of Munitions National Filling Factory No. 2) in 1916. It moved to W & R Jacob's biscuit factory in Aintree after the war and remained there until retirement in 1967.

Information
Number built:	1
Built:	1916
Builder:	Baguley Cars
Motor:	White & Poppe petrol/paraffin engine (later) Baguley 4-cyl petrol engine
Power:	60 hp (45 kW) - petrol 55 hp (41 kW) - paraffin (later) 40 hp (30 kW)
Wheel arrangement:	0-4-0PM

In 1927 it was hired out to the Cheshire Lines Committee to help with some civil engineering work. They managed to badly damage the locomotive and it had to be rebuilt. The original White & Poppe petrol/paraffin engine was replaced by a Baguley petrol engine which was less powerful but adequate for it's duties at the biscuit factory. No. 680 returned to work and remained in use for forty years as the spare locomotive on the company's internal network. No. 680 remained in service until the factory closed it's internal rail network in 1967 and was preserved.

Since retirement 680 has spent time at the Beamish Open Air Museum before arriving at the Statfold Barn Museum in 2011.

680 at the Statfold Barn Railway

[1] C.R. Weaver, "A veteran retires", Industrial Railway Record No. 21 (IRS 1968) p. 305