Engines for Engineers throughout the years

For the last few months our Fleet & Equipment division has created a Transport Archive documenting ESB transport since the foundation of the Company in 1927. A dedicated transport database and section was not available in ESB Archives up to this time.

The new collection comprises of a large photographic collection of ESB vehicles, a recreation of the company years, a large database of vehicle registration details and details of the first ESB vehicles from 1927 and 1928. It also boasts information on the staff involved in transport and the properties associated with such vehicles, as well as details on the development of ESB Networks' Fleet & Equipment (F&E) Division. A number of models of vehicles also form part of the collection.

A limited-edition wall-poster was commissioned to promote the archive and it contains 40 photographs of ESB vehicles dating from the late 1930s to the present day.

Tony Wall of F&E would like, through EM, to communicate with anyone, retired staff particularly, who may have information, logos and artwork that was displayed on ESB vehicles, details of the colour schemes used on vehicles down through the photographs or memorabilia in relation to transport and to appeal to them to consider donating them to the new Transport Archive, which will be housed in Harolds Cross in Dublin. Better still you might even have an old vehicle previously owned by ESB!

The name of all readers who send information to Tony will be entered into a draw for one of the framed posters and for some of the model vehicles.