British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE...

A traction motor is an electric motor used for propulsion of a vehicle, such as locomotives, electric or hydrogen vehicles, or electric multiple unit...

The British Electric Traction Company was a company in Mumbai that generated electricity for the city. It was established in 1882. It had a 1,100 hp (820 kW)...

Railway electric traction describes the various types of locomotive and multiple units that are used on electrification systems around the world. Railway...

electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number of the carriages. An...

classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the mainline network since 1948 (i.e. British Railways and post-privatisation)...

England between 1902 and 1925. It was a subsidiary company of the British Electric Traction group,. Powers to build were obtained under the Middleton Light...

City Transport. They also constructed bodies designed by the British Electric Traction group on Leyland Royal Tigers. In 1952, the coachworks were closed...

British United Traction (BUT) was a manufacturer of railway equipment and trolleybuses. It was established in 1946 as a joint venture between AEC and...

(in Hungarian Budapesti Értéktőzsde (BÉT)) BET plc, formerly British Electric Traction Biotechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon, a Greek vehicle manufacturer that...

to enter into partnerships with the bus combines: British Electric Traction, Scottish Motor Traction and Thomas Tilling, also the National Omnibus and...

The Potteries Electric Traction Company operated a tramway service in The Potteries between 1899 and 1928. British Electric Traction incorporated a new...

A traction substation, traction current converter plant, rectifier station or traction power substation (TPSS) is an electrical substation that converts...

aeroplanes. It initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers, locomotives and traction equipment, diesel motors and steam turbines. Its...

District Electric Traction Co was an electric tramway network serving the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The tramway was a subsidiary of the British Electric...

the television interests of British Electric Traction (trading as Associated-Rediffusion) owning 49%, and Associated British Picture Corporation—soon taken...

nationalisation in 1948. Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, British Electric Traction (BET), became the main constituents of the country's nationalised...

GEC Traction Limited was a British industrial company formed in 1972 which designed and manufactured electric traction equipment for railway rolling stock...

Japan, starting in the 1920s, some petrol–electric railcars were produced. The first diesel–electric traction and the first air-streamed vehicles on Japanese...

The British Rail Class 89 is a prototype electric locomotive. Only one was built, in 1986, by British Rail Engineering Limited's Crewe Works. It was used...

1896. The company was acquired by British Electric Traction (BET) in 1901, and its name changed to Metropolitan Electric Tramways Ltd. (MET). The first section...

The British Rail Class D2/11 was a British class of locomotive designed in 1958 by Brush Traction and Beyer, Peacock & Company, which co-operated to produce...

Electric Traction Limited was a British electric locomotive hire company. It operated some former British Rail Class 86 and 87 electric locomotives hired...

subsequently acquired by The Manitowoc Company) BET, formerly British Electric Traction (acquired by Rentokil) BG Group (acquired by Royal Dutch Shell)...

electrification. The tramway operation was leased to British Electric Traction. The first electric services ran on 26 September 1901. In 1906 the corporation...

The British Rail Class 70 was a class of three third rail Co-Co electric locomotives. The initial two were built by the Southern Railway (SR) at Ashford...

Welsh border. The company also manufactured buses. In 1899 the British Electric Traction (BET) company acquired the assets of the Birmingham General Omnibus...

to buy the tramway and convert it to electric operation. Despite an initial refusal, British Electric Traction made repeated approaches, and in 1901...

Argus Press was a British publishing company. It was acquired by British Electric Traction (BET) in 1966, and became the publishing arm of that company...

metropolitan area that ran from 1953 to 1983. After being run by British Electric Traction, the JOS was nationalised by the Jamaican government in 1974....