Streamlined locomotives
of the world
GWR 5005 Manorbier Castle
The Great Western only ever flirted with streamlining –
mainly to upstage the LNER.
In 1935, 6014 King Henry VII and the 4-6-0 Manorbier Castle
(pictured below on a cigarette card)
both received a very similar half-hearted treatment.
But Loewy thought these bullet-nosed monsters had 'aesthetic possibilities'!!!
By 1943, they were almost back to normal.
