text: Brush Bagnall Traction Close to Derby and its railway workshops, it retained its contacts with the railway. Acquired by Heenan & Froude in 1947, it was merged with W. G. Bagnall to produce diesel locomotives. In 1951, the company Brush Bagnall Traction Limited was formed. When British Railways began to replace its fleet of steam engines, Brush entered the market for main line diesel-electric locomotives.
  Brush Traction
  In 1957, the Brush group were bought up by Hawker Siddeley. In 1967, the rail tractor business of Crompton Parkinson was purchased. As part of Hawker Siddeley Electric Power Group, it then passed to BTR plc and became Brush Traction. Later it became part of FKI Energy Technologies, itself purchased in 2008 by Melrose Industries.
  In 2007, Brush Traction acquired Hunslet-Barclay with a facility in Kilmarnock. It was rebranded Brush-Barclay.
  In February 2011, Wabtec purchased Brush Traction for US$31 million.
  The locomotive works are still occupied by the Brush Traction Company and are in use for the building, overhaul and repair of locomotives.
  In April 2021, Wabtec announced the Loughborough factory would close with reduced work volumes making the site unsustainable.
  Locomotives
  Brush manufactured various diesel and electric locomotives for the British railway network:
  Class 31 "Brush Type 2" mixed-traffic diesel locomotive
  Class 47 "Brush Type 4" mixed-traffic diesel locomotive (manufacture shared with Crewe Works