What is Metro Cammell?
[[File:1973 Stock at Hounslow West b.jpg|thumb|A Metro Cammell built train of 1973 stock. These run on the [[London Underground|London Underground's]] Piccadilly line.]] [[File:A class 101 approaches Copy Pit.jpg|thumb|A Metro Cammell built [[Class 101 and 102|Class 101]] on the Calder Valley Line, near [[Burnley]].]] The '''Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW)''' (often called '''Metro Cammell''') was a manufacturer of [[railway carriage]]s and [[wagon]]s. They were based in [[Saltley]] - and later [[Washwood Heath]] - in [[Birmingham]], [[England]]. They are best known for making most of the trains on the [[London Underground]] and some first generation [[Diesel multiple unit|diesel multiple units]], until they were sold to French company [[Alstom]] in 1989. ==Other websites == * [http://www.hmrs.org.uk/news/03120101.shtml MCW archives at the Historical Model Railway Society, at Butterley in Derbyshire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215075928/http://www.hmrs.org.uk/news/03120101.shtml |date=2005-12-15 }} * Birmingham City Council Public Records Office also has an archive of old Metro Cammell material [[Category:Defunct companies of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1989 disestablishments in Europe]] [[Category:1980s disestablishments in the United Kingdom]] {{transport-stub}} [[Category:Organisations based in Birmingham]] [[Category:British rail vehicles manufacturers]]