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Extract from Wikepedia about the Thomas Hill company of locomotive builders, who at one time sold Hibberd 'Planet' locomotives under licence...
On 30/6/89 the company was again taken over, this time by RFS Engineering Ltd. (RFS were already operating at the old BR Doncaster works. The Thomas Hill name was dropped, but developments of TH designs continued to be produced. RFS’s first seven locos (narrow gauge locos for the channel tunnel contract) were numbered into their own scheme, thereafter works numbers of locos continued TH’s numbering.
Kilnhust works finally closed during 1993. Stock and work were transferred to RFS’s Doncaster works by 8/93. The final loco (CRACOE, for Tilcon, Grassington, N Yorks) was built at Doncaster as RFS Doncaster went into receivership.
So this could be a link as this would suggest that everything from Thomas Hill in Rotherham was transferred to RFS in Doncaster & this could possibly include items of spares or items taken off locomotives etc.
Tony
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