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C1887
The Building (at the Atlas Engineering Works), of the First Locomotive Made in New South Wales.
Rare engraving showing the manufacturing of the first locomotive to be made in New South Wales at the Atlas Engineering Works. In 1880 the contract to build Australia’s first locally-made engines was awarded to Sydney’s Atlas Engineering Company. Each of … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Building (at the Atlas Engineering Works), of the First Locomotive Made in New South Wales.
Date:
C1887
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
333mm
x 232mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1887
Description:
Rare engraving showing the manufacturing of the first locomotive to be made in New South Wales at the Atlas Engineering Works. In 1880 the contract to build Australia’s first locally-made engines was awarded to Sydney’s Atlas Engineering Company. Each of the 48 locomotives weighed over 60 tons and the manufacture required hard physical labour in hot and smoky conditions.  The Atlas Engineering Works at Pyrmont was building railway engines and passenger and goods rolling stock from 1878 on land adjacent to the Darling Harbour line.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)
Collingridge was a painter, illustrator and teacher who became staff artist for the Illustrated London News and The Graphic both very successful London newspapers, before emigrating to Australia. He was one of several sons in an old Catholic family from Godington Manor, Oxfordshire. Like his brother George , he mostly dropped the 'de Tourcey’ in Australia. came to Sydney in 1879 where he worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Mail , the Town and Country Journal. He founded the New South Wales Art Society and was staff artist of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collingridge exhibited widely, mainly in New South Wales and was a founding member of the Royal Art Society of NSW 1880.
