[82501] Wakefield Museum : Charles Roberts & Co

Wakefield Museum, Burton Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Charles Roberts & Co Ltd, Builders, Wakefield.

Maker's Plate, 1934.

 

Charles Roberts & Co Ltd was established in 1856 in Wakefield and moved to Horbury Junction in 1873 and registered in 1899 as a wagon building business located at the junction of routes of the Manchester and Leeds Railway (present Caldervale Line) and the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway Company (present Hallam Line). The company produced a variety of railway wagons, tank wagons and components.

 

The plant was acquired by Procor of Canada in 1974, becoming Procor Engineering Limited. Procor Engineering Ltd. was acquired by Bombardier. Bombardier closed the plant in 2005, as part of number of closures due to overcapacity throughout Europe and North America in its transportation division.

 

In addition to freight rolling stock, the plant produced bodyshells for the British Rail Class 60 during the Procor period, and British Rail Class 92 during Bombardier's ownership During the Second World War the factory was involved in the production of the Churchill Tank.

 

Between 1950 and 1952 Charles Roberts & Co built 36 tramcars to a design by Sheffield Transport, having comfortable upholstered seating for 62 passengers. This one is at Beamish....

 

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