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The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder founded in Birmingham in 1854. Its factory was located on Middlemore Road in Smethwick, straddling the boundary with Handsworth.
BRCW made not only huge numbers of carriages and wagons, but a range of vehicles, from aeroplanes and military gliders to buses, trolleybuses and tanks. It supplied vehicles to all four of the pre-nationalisation ‘big four’ railway companies (LMS, SR, LNER and GWR), British Rail, Pullman and Wagons-Lits, plus railways as diverse as those in Egypt, India, South Africa, Iraq, Malaya and Nigeria. The company built hospital trains during the Second Boer War, Handley Page bombers and Airco DH10s in 1914-1918, and tanks (including the A10 Cruiser, Churchill tank, Cromwell tank and Challenger), plus Hamilcar gliders in 1939-1945. In the years running up to 1963 the company had built an extensive number of locomotives, multiple units, and Underground cars, but then rapidly got into financial difficulties, and the business closed down. (Source: Wikipedia).
During the Second World War Churchill tanks were built by BRCW with WD numbers in the ranges T31821-995 and T67868-990 (source: C. Shillito/Churchill TMB).
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