<p>The nameplate of brand new steam locomotive <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/60163_Tornado" title="60163 Tornado">60163 <i>Tornado</i></a> which is fitted to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_deflectors" class="extiw" title="en:Smoke deflectors">smoke deflectors</a>. The locomotive was named after the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Panavia_Tornado" title="Panavia Tornado">Panavia Tornado</a> fighter aircraft flown by the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a>.
</p><p>This is the nameplate on the right hand side of the locomotive, and features the crest of the RAF station, RAF Cottesmore (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.webcitation.org/5fLZO2wcr">official image</a>), which depcits images of a hunting horn, a five-pointed star and a horseshoe, with the motto: We rise to our obstacles. The nameplate on the left hand side (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:60163_Tornado_left_side_nameplate_RAF_Leeming_crest.jpg" title="File:60163 Tornado left side nameplate RAF Leeming crest.jpg">image</a>) carries the RAF Leeming crest.
</p>
Only four of the original 49 Peppercorn A1 class locomotives also featured crests as part of their nameplates, representing railway company crests, the rest had none (such as <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A1_60131_Osprey.jpg" title="File:A1 60131 Osprey.jpg">60131 <i>Osprey</i></a>).
User:Ultra7
2009-03-15
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>