Metro-Cammell (Saltley/Washwood Heath)
About
Metro-Cammell (Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company) was a major British carriage and rolling-stock builder formed in 1929 by the merger of the Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon Company (Saltley) and Cammell Laird's railway interests. Its principal works were at Saltley and (later, after Saltley's closure in the 1960s) Washwood Heath in Birmingham.
For BR, Metro-Cammell built the Class 101 DMU (760 cars in twenty years), several aluminium-bodied EMU classes for the Southern Region, the London Underground 1973 Tube Stock for the Piccadilly Line, and most of the Networker stock for Network SouthEast. The firm was acquired by GEC-Alsthom in 1989 and the Washwood Heath works closed under Alstom in 2005, ending almost 175 years of railway carriage building on the site.