Diesel train chasis is lowered on to wheels, English Electric, Preston, 1956.

Engine production developed out carriages and trams at the Dick Kerr works in Preston, the Kerr works were later taken over by English Electric who made a series of diesel locomotives there for the masive British Railway modernisation programme from steam to diesel electric and for export during the 1950s. Photograph by Walter Nurnberg who transformed industrial photography after WWII using film studio lighting techniques.