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English Electric Battery Locomotives for the Rhodesia and General Asbestos Corporation

English Electric built hundreds of electric and battery electric locomotives for industrial and commercial customers. These two locomotives were built for the Rhodesia & General Asbestos Corporation for work at it's Shobani mine. The locomotives worked in tropical conditions at altitude both above and below ground.

The two locomotives [1]
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Number built: 2
Built: 1928
Builder: English Electric
Motor: 2 DK51F electric motors
Power: 15 hp (11.2 kW) 
Wheel arrangement: 4wBE

The locomotives could maintain maximum power for an hour with their 95v batteries. The locomotives were not very powerful perhaps though they were pretty small (though weighed four and a half tons), they operated on a 1 foot 6 inch gauge (457mm minimum gauge) railway.

[1] "A recent industrial locomotive installation", English Electric Journal Vol. 4 Issue 2 (1928) p. 60