Do you have any idea what this could possibly be off of? I've Googled the model number and all the other relevant information, and nothing comes up.
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Judging from the plate details, it may be from a GE trolley mine locomotive. A battery unit might be in the 50 - 100v range, so 250V suggests an overhead line. Here's a GE LME 500v unit from the 1930s; the plate is similar to yours, just older.
Based on searches, I have to wonder if this isn’t a mining locomotive. Especially given the low voltage. This article about European GE mining locos seems to have a lot of models using the LME prefix.
Well, two of us found info on mining locos. I think that indicates that’s what this likely is.
Sounds like it.
Thanks!
It came from a GE mining locomotive. The "LME" in GE parlance is "Locomotive-Mine-Electric". The builders plate also shows the manufacture date and the voltage. Most of them also show the model of the traction motors. For example, "HM-829" or some such. These were later "renamed" by GE as "GHM" traction motors, which were a box frame motor applied mostly to underground mine locomotives and some equipment handling railed vehicles. The most common of the latter day box frame traction motors were the GHM-842, 843, and 850 models. None of them required ventilation for their rating, another advantage in underground mine applications.
Thank you for the further detail!
I think there were also "LMB" for Locomotive-Mine-Battery" and "LMC" for Cable Reel, but we did not receive orders for either of those when I worked in Mining and Industrial at GE transportation.....
