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Avteq

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Avteq
IndustryAviation
Manufacturing
Founded2002
FounderJed Macartney
Rob Powell
Defunct2013
Headquarters,
Australia
ProductsLocomotives

Avteq was founded in 2002 by Jed Macartney and Rob Powell as an aviation consulting business.[1] In 2005 it diversified into locomotive manufacturing, producing 12 VL class locomotives for Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia from a factory in Sunshine.[2][3][4]

Avteq designed a second locomotive class, but none were ever manufactured.[5] The company was deregistered in 2013.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Avteq: Who in the world are they? Motive Power issue 49 December 2006 pages 56/57
  2. ^ The Allco / CFCLA Joint Venture VL Class Railway Digest April 2007 page 7
  3. ^ New Locomotive Newsrail May 2007 page 156
  4. ^ Oberg, Leon (2010). Locomotives of Australia 1850s - 2010. Rosenberg Publishing. p. 438. ISBN 9781921719011.
  5. ^ Avteq Products Avteq
  6. ^ Avteq Pty Ltd Australian Securities & Investments Commission