ENGRAVED IRON NAME PLATE - ARTHUR KOPPEL JOHANNESBURG (read descr)

This vintage metal nameplate looks to be from a mining rail coal carriage (koekoepan)

Arther Koppel seems to be a manufacturer of the carriages. Read the following:

Reflecting the general trend of the Company's business, Arthur Koppel not only increased steadily the deliveries of light railway equipment but became a notable builder of light railways as well. Outstanding in Russia was the construction of a 750mm gauge forest railway in the Ural Mountains, 116km (72 miles) in length. Before that the engineering staff of Arthur Koppel had laid down some 200km (125 miles) of plantation railways for the Société Générale des Sucreries de la Haute Egypt. The biggest job, however, was the construction of the Otavi Railway in South-West Africa. With a length of 360 miles it was then considered to be the longest 600mm gauge railway in the world. Having been built between 1903 and 1906 it may justly be called the crowning of the lifework of Arthur Koppel. Two years later, in 1908, Arthur Koppel died in Berlin and his firm ceased to be an independent unit when it was amalgamated with Orenstein £t Koppel.

The item is old, unique and defititely collectable.

Size :+/- 130mm x 75mm

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