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Hawker Siddeley Canada

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Hawker-Siddeley Transportation also produced railway freight cars primarily for Canadian railways and leasing companies during the 1970s and 1980s at plants in Thunder Bay, Ontario and Trenton, Nova Scotia. Today the Thunder Bay plant is owned by
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acquired the plant in 1995 but during a serious contraction within the railcar sector in the mid 2000s closed the plant. The Thunder Bay plant primarily built passenger rail and transit equipment, while the Trenton plant built freight cars.
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Hawker Siddeley Canada focused on manufacturing heavy rail cars (hopper and tank cars) and transit vehicles (subway cars, intercity railcars and streetcars). Major clients included:
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Hawker Siddeley forced its DOSCO subsidiary to close money-losing coal mines and steel mills, subsequently expropriated by the federal and Nova Scotia governments (see:
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purchased the railcar business but mothballed the TrentonWorks plant, which was later acquired by the Government of Nova Scotia and sold to
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Group of the United Kingdom and manufactured railcars, subway cars, streetcars, aircraft engines and ships from the 1960s to 1980s.
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and the Hawker Siddeley Canada name was ultimately dissolved in 2001.
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Hawker-Siddeley Canada also manufactured aircraft engines for
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A partial list of products made by Hawker Siddeley Canada:
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Hawker Siddeley Canada's operations were then acquired by
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Divested by Hawker Siddeley group and assets acquired by
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The Camshaft Control Hawkers (Series H1, H2, H3 and H4)
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Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 2001
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Gondolas - for steel, logs, stone, other bulk freight
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Founded in 1962 as the Canadian division of British
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Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1962
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Bi-level coaches originally built by Hawker Siddley
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Subsidiary
Aerospace
Mass transit
railcar
manufacturing
UTDC
UTDC
SNC-Lavalin
Can-Car Rail
Orenda Engines
Halifax Industries Limited
Mississauga
Ontario
Canada
Railcar
Mass transit
Streetcars
Aircraft engine
Ships
Parent
Hawker Siddeley
Subsidiaries
Avro Canada
Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
Halifax Shipyard
Canadian Car and Foundry
Orenda Engines
Hawker Siddeley
Hawker Siddeley Group

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