Adverts from The Locomotive magazine, March 1929
Five adverts from the March 1929 Locomotive magazine and mostly for rolling stock construction companies - a reminder of the number of locomotive builders the UK industry had at the time especially when one considers that the 'Big Four' mostly built their own. That said the companies did turn to external contractors at times as can be seen here with the London Midland & Scottish Railway's order for a batch of locomotives placed with the famous North British company in Glasgow. The 'Royal Scots' were express locomotives and built, I think, as the LMS when formed in 1923 had issues with whose of the constituants locomotive fleet to keep, standardise upon and then actually find the capacity within the company to construct. At the time the LMS was one of the biggest railway companies in the world.
The North British, with their trade mark diamond builders plates, came into being in 1903 with the merger of three well established Clydeside locomotive builders. The massive company produced huge quantities of steam locomotives, especially for export, but failed to make the transition to diesel and electric in the 1950s and they went under in 1962.
Leeds was an important centre for locomotive construction and two well known names appear here - Hunslet and Fowler. The latter had their origin in the agricultural machine business in the 1850s and the company made more than railway equipment for many years. Having made the transition to internal combustion as well as steam power, locomotive construction finally ceased in 1968 when production moved to a company, Barclay, by then associated with Hunslet. Hunslet had a long and illustrious history from their foundation in 1864 building many thousands of mostly small shunting and tank locomotives as well as embracing internal combustion from an early date.
By 1929 the Burton on Trent based company of Baguley (Engineers), originally a car builder, was in trouble. The close association with Drewry, another builder of railway rolling stock, was drawing to a close and the company went under in 1931 although the name was soon resurrected by new management who continued to trade until 1964.
Finally, Quasi-Arc had been in business since around 1910 and were bought out by the major asbestos company of Turner & Newall in 1930 allowing development of blue asbestos electrodes. They were taken over by BOC in later years and the long standing Bilston, Staffordshire, base closed in 1968.
Adverts from The Locomotive magazine, March 1929
Five adverts from the March 1929 Locomotive magazine and mostly for rolling stock construction companies - a reminder of the number of locomotive builders the UK industry had at the time especially when one considers that the 'Big Four' mostly built their own. That said the companies did turn to external contractors at times as can be seen here with the London Midland & Scottish Railway's order for a batch of locomotives placed with the famous North British company in Glasgow. The 'Royal Scots' were express locomotives and built, I think, as the LMS when formed in 1923 had issues with whose of the constituants locomotive fleet to keep, standardise upon and then actually find the capacity within the company to construct. At the time the LMS was one of the biggest railway companies in the world.
The North British, with their trade mark diamond builders plates, came into being in 1903 with the merger of three well established Clydeside locomotive builders. The massive company produced huge quantities of steam locomotives, especially for export, but failed to make the transition to diesel and electric in the 1950s and they went under in 1962.
Leeds was an important centre for locomotive construction and two well known names appear here - Hunslet and Fowler. The latter had their origin in the agricultural machine business in the 1850s and the company made more than railway equipment for many years. Having made the transition to internal combustion as well as steam power, locomotive construction finally ceased in 1968 when production moved to a company, Barclay, by then associated with Hunslet. Hunslet had a long and illustrious history from their foundation in 1864 building many thousands of mostly small shunting and tank locomotives as well as embracing internal combustion from an early date.
By 1929 the Burton on Trent based company of Baguley (Engineers), originally a car builder, was in trouble. The close association with Drewry, another builder of railway rolling stock, was drawing to a close and the company went under in 1931 although the name was soon resurrected by new management who continued to trade until 1964.
Finally, Quasi-Arc had been in business since around 1910 and were bought out by the major asbestos company of Turner & Newall in 1930 allowing development of blue asbestos electrodes. They were taken over by BOC in later years and the long standing Bilston, Staffordshire, base closed in 1968.