Hawker Siddeley Canada
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Hawker-Siddeley Canada was the Canadian unit of Hawker-Siddeley of the United Kingdom and manufactured railcars, streetcars and aircraft engines from the 1960s to 1980s.
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[edit] History
Founded in the 1960s as the Canadian division of British Hawker Siddeley. The Canadian arm focused on manufacturing heavy rail cars (hopper and tank cars) and transit vehicles (subway cars, intercity railcars, streetcars). The biggest client of Hawker Siddeley Canada was the Toronto Transit Commission and GO Transit, as well as:
- Soo Line Railway
- Government of Canada - Wheat cars
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Orange and Blue line cars
[edit] Operations
Hawker Siddeley Canada headquarters was in Mississauga, Ontario, while the main transit plant was in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Hawker Siddeley Canada's operations later were acquired by Kingston-based UTDC (later acquired by Bombardier Transportation of Montréal, Québec). Railcar business was sold to SNC-Lavalin and later acquired by Bombardier Transportation.
The Hawker Siddeley name no longer exists in Canada after the sale to Bombardier Transportation.
[edit] Products
A list of products made by Hawker Siddeley Canada:
Transit
- RT75 H1 subway cars - for the Toronto Transit Commission 1965-1966
- H-Series automated surface metro cars - for the 67 World Fair Expo-Express, operated by the CTM (now STM) (1965)
- H2 and H3 subway cars - for the Toronto Transit Commission 1971
- RT75 H4 subway cars - for the Toronto Transit Commission 1974-1975
- Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) PA3 rail transit cars for New Jersey (1972)
- MBTA Blue Line 0600 series subway cars (1979)
- MBTA Orange Line 01200 series subway cars (1980)
- Municipal Service Car - demo only for the TTC
- GO Transit Hawker-Siddeley DMU Coaches
Aviation
Hawker-Siddeley Canada also manufactured aircraft engines for Avro Canada and other aircraft manufacturers:
- Orenda Engines General Electric J-79
- Orenda Engines General Electric J-85-CAN-40
- Orenda Engines General Electric J-85-CAN-15
Railcar
Hawker also made hopper and tanker cars of various railways in North American in the 1970s and 1980s:
- Cyclindrical Hopper Car
- Cyclindrical Grain Hopper Car - Government of Canada
- Covered Hopper Car
- Sodium Hydroxide Tank Car - Procor Limited
- Tank Car - Procor Limited
- LPG Tank Car - Procor Limited
- Chlorine Tank Car - Procor Limited
[edit] See also
- Urban Transportation Development Corporation
- Bombardier Transportation
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- Toronto Transit Commission
