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'''Pull Push Limited ''' is a private limited company number 04337924 incorporated on 11 December 2001 for the "Repair and maintenance of other transport equipment not elsewhere classified". The sole director and minority shareholder is Mike Little (b. 1936). Following the death of Thomas Jones in 2019, Mrs Thelma Patricia Jones (b. 1939 and at the time shown as based in Florida, USA) is the majority shareholder. Both Mrs. Jones and Mr. Little are also substantial (approximately £1m) long-term creditors in the business, which has in its accounts net liabilities in excess of £700,000.
==Rolling stock==
*Resident autotrailers [[GWR 178 Autotrailer Third|178]] and [[GWR 238 Autotrailer Third|238]].<ref>Felstead, K., 'Track Record', The Railway Magazine, January 2021</ref>
*Former resident [[GWR 1450]]
*Ex-GWR 'Small Prairie' 5538.<ref>[https://www.theflourmill.com/formerprojects.html The Flour Mill website] (Retrieved 27 October 2021)</ref> Although never having been on SVR metals during preservation, it is of historical interest as it was allocated to [[Kidderminster Shed]] around 1943 and to [[Shrewsbury]] in 1961.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Beddoes & Smith (1995)]] p. 136.</ref><ref>[https://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=5538&loco=5538 5538 on BR database website] (Retrieved 27 October 2021)</ref> It was photographed working on the Severn Valley line in 1957. 5538 was donated to the town of Barry by Dai Woodham. It left the scrapyard in 1987, spending 10 years on a plinth on the seafront.<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/taffytank/3461547269 Peter Brabham photo]</ref> It was then relocated to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway in 1997 where it spent some years in storage, effectively as the eleventh member of the "Barry 10". It was then acquired for restoration by the Llangollen Railway Great Western Locomotive Group. It had a cracked cylinder and other problems, as a result of which an exchange of frames was agreed with the owners of sister locomotive 5532 which had left Barry in April 1981, having been purchased for the Dean Forest Railway. 5538 moved to the DFR in July 2006 where despite its problems it was still seen as a candidate for long term restoration, and to the Flour Mill workshops circa 2010<ref>[http://www.uklocos.com/final-results.asp?action=display&id=2621 UKLocos.com]</ref><ref>[https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/5538-2/ preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com]</ref>.
 <gallerymode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">File:1450_20140309.jpg | Autocoach 238 leads GWR 1450 and 178 away from Highley on 9 March 2014
File:Bridgnorth-5538-1957-04-23.jpeg| Ex-GWR 'Small Prairie' 5538 calls at Bridgnorth on 23 April 1957 ([[Sellick Collection]])
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