Hawker Siddeley Canada

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Hawker Siddeley Canada was the Canadian unit of the Hawker Siddeley Group of the United Kingdom and manufactured railcars, streetcars and aircraft engines from the 1960s to 1980s.

1 History
2 Products
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Founded in 1962 as the Canadian division of British Hawker Siddeley Group, the company assumed the assets of the A.V. Roe Canada Company Ltd..

Hawker Siddeley Canada focused on manufacturing heavy rail cars (hopper and tank cars) and transit vehicles (subway cars, intercity railcars and streetcars). Major clients included:

Toronto Transit Commission
GO Transit
Soo Line Railway
Canadian Wheat Board - cylindrical grain hoppers
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Orange and Blue line transit cars

Hawker Siddeley Canada headquarters was in Mississauga, Ontario. Its formation in 1962 saw the company acquire control of several A.V. Roe Canada subsidiaries including the Canadian Car and Foundry as well as the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (DOSCO) conglomerate, which included various steel mills, coal mines and manufacturing plants. Consequently, Hawker Siddeley had two primary railcar manufacturing plants:

CC&F factory in Thunder Bay, Ontario for manufacturing railway transit cars, and
DOSCO factory in Trenton, Nova Scotia for manufacturing railway freight cars (TrentonWorks), along with the Trenton Forge - the largest forge in North America.

Hawker Siddeley forced its DOSCO subsidiary to close money-losing coal mines and steel mills, subsequently expropriated by the federal and Nova Scotia governments (see: Cape Breton Development Corporation and Sydney Steel Corporation). Likewise, CC&F was forced to shed various assets.

Hawker Siddeley Canada's operations were then acquired by Kingston-based UTDC (later sold to Bombardier Transportation of Montréal, Québec). SNC-Lavalin purchased the railcar business but mothballed the TrentonWorks plant, which was later acquired by the Government of Nova Scotia and sold to Greenbrier. SNC-Lavalin sold the Thunder Bay plant to Bombardier Transportation and the Hawker Siddeley Canada name was ultimately dissolved in 2001.

[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