Blue Pullman

Publicity - Manufacturers

Metro-Cammell

Met-Camm produced a fabulous brochure about the forthcoming trains. Interestingly, while there were interior and component images, there are no photographs of exterior views.

Download a PDF of the brochure (3.5mb).

The next image is a colour Met-Camm advert, this appeared on the front page of a Railway Gazette.

The final piece is from 1965 celebrating over 25 years of luxury travel.

J. Stone

One of the suppliers of parts for the sets - J. Stone & Co. (Deptford) Ltd. - also published a 12 page brochure, 'Equipment for British Railways New Diesel Pullman Trains', describing the equipment supplied by the company for the vehicles. It described the auxiliary power supply and distribution gear, complete air-conditioning and lighting installations, inter-coach electric couplings, speedometers and distance counters, and the track speed controls used in conjunction with the special braking. Samples can be seen below left and right.

Illustrations included layout drawings which aid the location and identification of Stone equipment, and there were drawings of the complete six- and eight-car trains accompanied by lists summarising all components and indicating the cars in which they may be installed.

Skefko

Another company that was proud of supplying parts for the sets was the Skefko Ball Bearing Co. Ltd. who had a large window display in their showroom, featuring a huge poster of a unit, a 6-car model and route plans etc.

The next two are from NBL/MAN, who supplied the power unit, and Graviner who supplied fire protection equipment.

Rolls-Royce

An advert below from Rolls-Royce:

More trade adverts can be found on the Railway Adverts website.