Infobox Defunct Companycompany name NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany Limited company logo File GNR 1744 ... of a tradition started by D bs & Co. D bs and Company . The NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany NBL or NorthBritish was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing ... purchased numerous NorthBritish locomotives, as did the State of Victoria as late as 1951 Oberg, Locomotives of Australia . Western Australia also purchased many NorthBritish Locomotives, such as the WAGR P Class . File Former NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany HQ geograph.org.uk 1781388.jpg left ... over 2,000 locomotives from the NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany. In 1953, RENFE in Spain acquired 25 F class 2 8 2 locomotives from the NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany. One example, 1952 Works ... Category Companies disestablished in 1962 de NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany fr NorthBritish ... locomotive, NorthBritish NZR J class 1939 J 1211 . File LNER Class B1 steam locomotive No 61264 ... surviving NorthBritish main line diesel or electric locomotive is British Rail Class 84 Class 84 84001. A RailGauge 30 gauge NorthBritish 4 6 2 steam locomotive is preserved at the Phyllis Rampton ... Hyde Park Works and D bs & Co. D bs and Company Queens Park Works , creating the largest locomotive ... railway works , owned by the Caledonian Railway and Cowlairs railway works , owned by the NorthBritish ... was temporarily converted into a hospital by the British Red Cross . It was latterly the campus of North ... of the J class. Together with the NB predecessor firms, NorthBritish supplied about a quarter ... old oak common 1965.jpg thumb right 300px NorthBritish Class 22, D6343 , with British Rail Class ... locomotives for both its domestic market and abroad, NorthBritish failed to make the jump to diesel locomotive production. It did build a Paxman engined diesel locomotive, British Rail 10800 , originally ... British Rail Class D2 1 . Later in the 1950s it signed a deal with the German company MAN SE MAN ... more details
NorthBritish is an adjective used as an alternative to Scottish , it may also refer to northern regions of England see North Britain NorthBritish may also refer to NorthBritish Railway NorthBritishLocomotiveCompanyNorthBritish Distillery NorthBritish Academy of Arts Disambig ... more details
orphan date December 2007 The Highland LocomotiveCompany is a subsidiary of the Strathspey Railway preserved Strathspey Railway Company . The Strathspey Railway Company operate and own most of, the Strathspey Railway, a heritage railway based in the Central Highlands. The Highland LocomotiveCompany own three steam locomotives based on the Strathspey Railway. They are Former British Railways Locomotive Number 46512. 46512 is a London Midland and Scottish Railway designed locomotive built by British Railways at Swindon Works in 1952. The locomotive was designed by George Ivatt to replace many of the ageing 0 6 0 engines that the LMS used to work on secondary duties and on rural branches. 46512 is a 2 6 0 tender engine with a simple 2 cylinder locomotive. coord 57 11 20 N 3 49 35 W region GB type landmark display title Category Heritage railways in Scotland Category Visitor attractions in Highland council area Category Companies based in Highland council area Scotland company stub Scotland rail transport stub ... more details
Stewart amalgamated with other firms in 1903 to form the NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany , the Atlas Works continued to build locomotives until its closure in 1923. sfn Lowe 1989 pp 506 7,580 Locomotive ...Infobox company name Clyde LocomotiveCompany logo caption type fate Acquired successor Sharp Stewart and Company foundation start date 1884 founder Walter Montgomerie Neilson defunct End date 1888 location city Glasgow location country Scotland area served Worldwide key people industry Steam locomotive s owner intl yes The Clyde LocomotiveCompany was a firm of locomotive manufacturers in Springburn , Glasgow , Scotland . sfn Lowe 1989 p 112 The company was founded in 1884 by Walter Montgomerie Neilson, after he left the partnership of Neilson, Reid and Company sfn Lowe 1989 pp 112,504 sfn Marshall 1978 p 163 in 1876 following a disagreement with James Reid. sfn Cooke 1964 p 928 In 1886, the first locomotives were built these were a class of eight 4 4 0 s for the Highland Railway , known as the Highland Railway E Class Clyde Bogies . sfn Lowe 1989 p 112 sfn Cormack Stevenson 1988 p 101 Two ... 4 Scottish and remaining English Companies in the LMS Group series BritishLocomotive Catalogue 1825 ... isbn 0 901115 64 9 ref harv cite book last Lowe first James W. title British Steam Locomotive Builders ... , were delivered to that company s successor, the Ayrshire and Wigtownshire Railway. sfn Lowe 1989 pp ... Sharp Stewart and Company wanted to expand, but finding it impossible to extend their existing Atlas ... the Clyde Locomotive Co. and renamed it Atlas Works after their former premises. sfn Cormack Stevenson ... locomotives were completed by the Clyde Locomotive Co. the last three orders were completed by Sharp ... of British Railway Companies year 1990 publisher Guild Publishing location London id CN 8983 ... B.W.C. editor last Cooke year 1964 month December title The Why and the Wherefore Two Glasgow locomotive ... Companies established in 1884 Category Companies based in Glasgow Category Locomotive manufacturers ... more details
Image Champlain Loco 1849.jpg thumb The Champlain, built by Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company in 1849 for the Hudson Valley Railroad File Parley I Perrin.jpg thumb P.I. Perrin The Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company was one of the earliest firms in the United States established especially for the manufacture of steam locomotive s. Located in Taunton, Massachusetts , the company was organized ... Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company ref Company history Willard W. Fairbanks was a machinist who had worked in Providence, Rhode Island building stationary and marine engines. The company s first ... machine company, that decided to enter the locomotive building trade. ref Arthur W. Wallace, Mason ... joined the company in 1846 as a forman and technical drawing draftsman , and worked his way up through the leadership ranks. ref History of Taunton, Massachusetts, 1893, Emery ref By 1877, Taunton Locomotive had its 675th locomotive. However, by then the company lagged far behind the larger locomotive builders of the time, such as Baldwin Locomotive Works Baldwin and Schenectady Locomotive Works Schenectady . The engines of Taunton, and the other New England locomotive builders were considered obsolete compared to these larger establishments. In 1883, the locomotive works established the Huber Printing Press Company to supplement its dwindling locomotive business. That same year, Nahum Stetson ... by Taunton Locomotive was built in 1889. The company also ventured into steam powered snow plows, and other ... ref The company s shops were located on Wales Street just west of downtown Taunton, Massachusetts ... s vast system in Southeastern Massachusetts. In 1852 the company faced new competition from their neighbor .... ref By 1860, Taunton Locomotive had produced almost 300 engines. ref John H. White Jr., American Locomotive Builders in the Steam Era, Self published, 1982 , p. 97. ref In 1861, Harrison Tweed would take over control the company from Fairbanks, and lead it through perhaps its most productive period ... more details
The Munich Steam LocomotiveCompany Dampflok Gesellschaft M nchen or DGM is charitable society based in Munich , Germany, whose aim is to preserve the oil fired steam locomotive, number 41 018, as an operational locomotive. Society The society was originally founded in 1976 as the Interessengemeinschaft 41 018. e.V. 41 018 Interest Group as the DRG Class 41 steam locomotive, no. 41 018, was purchased. This steam engine is registered as a technological monument in the state of Bavaria , Germany. The society has 11 members who are joint owners of the locomotives and who have succeeded in keeping and operating locomotive 41 018 for more than 30 years. The steam engine is homed at the Augsburg Railway Park where the necessary work is also carried out. Locomotives The following locomotives are owned by the DGM and stored at the Augsburg Railway Park Steam locomotive 41 018 since 1976 operational oil fired Steam locomotive 41 364 since 1983 rolling Steam locomotive 44 606 since 2003 rolling K f 63 11 used for shunting duties Purchase of 41 018 No. 042 018 2 was bought, because she was the best of the 29 surviving DRG Class 41 Class 41s , having only had an L2 H2.8 overhaul in 1975. She had completed just die 66,000 kilometer since her overhaul and could therefore continue to be worked for a long time, both in terms of distance and time. Events Special steam trains are hauled by 41 018 in cooperation with other organisations. External links http www.dgm 41018.de Munich Steam LocomotiveCompany website German http www.bahnpark augsburg.de Augsburg Railway Park German http www.ulmer eisenbahnfreunde.de Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde a sister German railway society German There is an English language discussion forum at http germanrail.8.forumer.com Railways of Germany coord missing Bavaria Category Visitor attractions in Munich Category Buildings and structures in Munich Category Railway museums in Germany Category Heritage railways in Germany Category Railway museums in Bavaria Category ... more details
File Canadian Pacific Railway 8010.jpg thumb right 300px A Canadian LocomotiveCompany Baldwin DRS 4 4 1000 in Canadian Pacific Railway livery. The Canadian LocomotiveCompany , commonly referred to as CLC , was a Canada Canadian manufacturer of railway locomotive s located in Kingston, Ontario Kingston ... Locomotive and Engine Company Ltd. CL&EC . After yet another re organization in April 1881 ... were sold to the respected locomotive builder D bs and Company , of Glasgow , Scotland , which ... 1901 as the Canadian LocomotiveCompany Ltd. Improvements followed which allowed production of one locomotive per week. Reorganization once again took place under new management in June 1911 although ... an independent Canadian company. Locomotive construction dwindled even further as the company ... LocomotiveCompany locomotives http trainweb.org oldtimetrains clc clc.htm Canadian Locomotive ... ru Canadian LocomotiveCompany ... it became known as the Kingston Locomotive Works . The first steam locomotive was turned out on Wednesday ... went bankruptcy bankrupt in 1860. The Canadian Engine & Machinery Company was a shareholder owned successor company law company founded in 1865. It too ran into financial troubles during the Long Depression ... armaments and munitions , as did the competing shops of the Montreal Locomotive Works , the CPR ... except for export s to France , Belgium and India . CLC felt its future lay with diesel locomotive ... American manufacturers The CLC in 1948 became the Canadian representative for Baldwin Locomotive Works which also owned Whitcomb Locomotive Works . However, the result of this collaboration ... used in Shipping maritime applications that was itself attempting to break into the railway locomotive ... in the marketplace for the Alco ALCO designed locomotives offered by the Montreal Locomotive Works ... . By 1957, orders had fallen off and Fairbanks Morse eventually left the locomotive business in both ... more details
Image North Melbourne depot interior.jpg thumb 250px Steam locomotives E 462, R 483, and M 224 around one of the turntables circa 1905. North Melbourne Locomotive Depot was the main location for maintenance of the Victorian Railways steam locomotive fleet based in Melbourne . Located in the middle of the Melbourne Yard precinct in the suburb West Melbourne, Victoria West Melbourne near North Melbourne railway station , the site is now occupied by the Melbourne Steel Terminal . The depot was described by railway employees as the hub of the universe , the VR s nearest approach to Inferno Dante Dante s Inferno , or the Black Hole of Calcutta depending on their disposition. ref name lee85 cite book author Lee, Robert title The Railways of Victoria 1854 2004 publisher Melbourne University Publishing Ltd date 2007 isbn 9780522851342 page page 85 ref History The depot was opened sometime in the 1880s by the Victorian Railways, replacing their first locomotive depot located in the Spencer Street Station yard. ref name lee85 It was located beside the Railway Canal, a section of Moonee Ponds Creek that enabled the direct unloading of coal transported by sea from New South Wales . The rectangular building was built of brick and iron with three turntable rail turntables located inside. There were six track entrances, two at the front from the main goods yard, three from the stabling roads, and one at the rear. A three road coal stage was located to the south of the depot, along with a number of open air stabling roads. ref name diag Victorian Railways Signal Diagram Melbourne Goods Yard 6 33 1933 ref As late as the 1950s the depot housed 160 locomotives, ref name lee85 but with dieselisation from 1952 the end was near. The new South Dynon locomotive depot was opened across the creek for the new locomotives as part of the North East standard gauge line, Victoria North East standard ... page page 219 ref The depot was ceremoniously demolished on January 20, 1965 when steam locomotive ... more details
, Limited liability in 1864. Took over Clyde LocomotiveCompany in 1888. Merged into NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany in 1903 1853 R.Coulthard and Company Gateshead Closed 1865. Passed to Black, Hawthorn ... Joined NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany in 1903 1863 Kitson and Company , Leeds Closed 1938 1864 ... Newcastle Last locos approx 1937. 1898 Neilson, Reid and Company , Glasgow Amalgamated into the NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany in 1903 1903 NorthBritishLocomotiveCompany , Glasgow , Closed 1962 ...This is a list of early British private locomotive manufacturers in chronological order. Many listed ... in 1889. 1834 George Forrester and Company , Liverpool , Closed 1890. Last locomotive circa ... , Leeds Built Jenny Lind locomotive Jenny Lind Closed 1858 1847 W. G. Armstrong and Company ... builders List of British railway owned locomotive builders References reflist Lowe, J.W., 1989 British Steam Locomotive Builders, Guild Publishing Category Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom Category British railway related lists Early British private locomotive manufacturers ..., often for export. 1785 R. B. Longridge and Company Bedlington First loco built 1837. Closed 1855 1790 ... in 1862. Closed 1886. 1790 Benjamin Outram and Company , Butterley , Derbyshire Civil engineering firm, but had a strong interest in railways. Became Butterley Company in 1805 1795 Fenton, Murray and Wood ... Butterley Company , Butterley , Derbyshire Built locos for its own use plus two for the Midland Counties Railway . Closed in 1965, though the Butterley Engineering Company survives 1810 Haigh Foundry ... Ltd , Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle Became Hawthorn Leslie in 1884. 1819 Foster, Rastrick and Company ... Stephenson and Company Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle Became R.Stephenson & Hawthorn in 1937. 1823 Edward Bury and Company , Liverpool Became Bury, Curtis and Kennedy in 1842 1824 G and J Rennie , Blackfriars ... and Todd s Railway Foundry in 1846. 1826 Mather, Dixon and Company , Liverpool Moved to Bootle in 1839 ... more details
Glasgow Caledonian Railway 1854 York railway works York North Eastern Railway UK North Eastern Railway 1856 St. Margarets NorthBritish Railway 1856 Cardiff Taff Vale Railway 1857 Kilmarnock railway ... Caerphilly Rhymney Railway 1909 Inverurie Locomotive Works Inverurie Great North of Scotland Railway Sources Atkins, P., 1999 The Golden Age of Steam Locomotive Building , Penrhyn Atlantic Transport Publications ... Press Category Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom Category Railway workshops in Great Britain Category British railway related lists British railway owned locomotive builders ...Many early locomotive works disappeared as railways merged or they became simply motive power depot s. Some, like Bromsgrove, made only one or two new locomotives but, for even the largest, overhaul and repair of the existing fleet was the main activity. See also List of locomotive builders and List of early British private locomotive manufacturers class wikitable sortable WIDTH 50 Year Works location Railway company 1826 Shildon railway works Shildon Stockton and Darlington Railway 1830 Edge Hill railway works Edge Hill Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 Gateshead railway works Newcastle and Darlington Railway 1838 Wolverton railway works Wolverton London and Birmingham Railway 1839 Edge ... Works Derby North Midland Railway 1841 Crewe Works Crewe Grand Junction Railway 1842 Cowlairs railway ... Railway 1843 Nine Elms Locomotive Works Nine Elms London and South Western Railway 1844 Darlington railway works Darlington North Eastern Railway UK North Eastern Railway 1845 Wolverton railway works Wolverton London and North Western Railway 1845 Ashford railway works Ashford South Eastern and Chatham ... locomotive works Gorton Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway to Great Central Railway 1849 ... Bow North London Railway 1851 Stratford railway works Stratford Great Eastern Railway 1853 Earlestown ... works Highbridge Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway 1868 Stoke railway works Stoke North Staffordshire ... more details
Infobox company name Shahekou factory small 1899 1945 small br br Dalian Locomotive Works small 1945 2007 small br br CNR Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. small 2007 small logo File Dalian Locomotive Entrance.jpg frameless IN THE ABSENCE OF A LOGO, THE COMPANY MAIN BUILDING SEEMS A REASONABLE IMAGE caption The entrance to Dalian LocomotiveCompany on Zhongchang Street, Dalian type genre ... footnotes intl CNR Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Company in Lang zh , often abbreviated as DLoco , is a company located in Dalian , Liaoning Province , China , producing railway locomotives ... of China CNR Corporation China NorthLocomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Group Corporation CNR after 2008 China NorthLocomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation Limited . History 1899 1952 File Dalian ... thumb right The East Wind No. 4 Diesel Locomotive In 1956 the company manufacturerd the China Railways ... press year 2001 page 9 ref 2000 The state company China National Railway Locomotive & Rolling ... the company became part of the newly formed China Northern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Group ..., the company s main businesses, are East Wind No. 4 locomotive for passenger train ... Lang zh 7E electric locomotive since 2002 The company has a capacity of producing 600 combustion ... Locomotive and Rolling Stock Company http www.dloco.com Official Web Site in Chinese http www.chinacnr.com ... and Rolling Stock Company corporate video coord 38.9190 121.5776 type landmark Dalian Locomotive factory entrance Locomotive manufacturers of China DEFAULTSORT Dalian Locomotive And Rolling Stock Company ... China Ministry of Railways until 2001 when LORIC China National Railway Locomotive & Rolling ... 2011 The locomotive factory in Dalian was founded in 1899, ref name hd Sources br cite web url ... 266 692 2957.aspx title trans title CNR Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co. Company Profile CNR member company work www.chinacnr.com language chinese ref contemporary ... more details
Onesource date December 2007 There have been a number of TOPS class numbers assigned to proposed locomotives that have not been built for one reason or another. Diesel locomotives Type 1 locomotives Class 18 A proposed new Type 1 locomotive proposed in the mid 1980s. No prototype model was ever produced. Type 3 locomotives Class 38 Projected classification for new generation of Type 3 freight locomotives in the 1980s. The Class 38 was dropped in favour of the British Rail Class 60 Class 60 . Type 4 locomotives Class 41 The third use of Class 41 was for a proposed class of British Rail Class 60 Class 60 locomotives with 2,500 hp engines in the early 1990s. Class 48 The second use of Class 48 was for a new class of freight locomotive in the mid 1980s. Type 5 locomotives Class 51 Projected classification for the proposed Super Deltic locomotive intended as a follow on from the British Rail Class 50 Class 50 and British Rail Class 55 Class 55 . Class 62 Projected classification for proposed Type 5 coal train locomotives in the early 1990s. Class 65 Projected classification for proposed 4,000 hp freight working locomotive intended for liner train s. Electro diesel locomotives Class 75 Spare classification for projected super electro diesel follow on from British Rail Class 73 Class 73 and British Rail Class 74 Class 74 . Electric locomotives Class 88 Proposed electric version of the British Rail Class 58 Class 58 , powered through 25 kV AC from overhead wire . British Rail Class 93 Class 93 Proposed electric locomotive for use on the West Coast Main Line as part of the InterCity 250 project. External links http www.therailwaycentre.com Resource data All 20Time 20class 20Loco.pdf UK Traction Classification Locomotives British Rail Locomotives Category British Rail locomotives Category British railway related lists British Rail Unbuilt Locomotive Classes simple List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes ... more details
Infobox companycompany name MLC Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Companycompany logo company type Private company slogan Global Network of Innovation founder MAPNA Group foundation 2006 in Tehran , Iran location Tehran and Karaj , Iran key people Mahdi Tashakori, President br Dr. P. S. Aghayee, CEO num employees 52 2008 industry Locomotive Production products Locomotives Diesel and Electric , Rail Vehicle Braking Systems services Maintenance & refurbishing of different types of locomotives revenue Image Green Arrow Up.svg 12px USD 30.2 million homepage http www.mapnaloco.com mapnaloco.com Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company MLC is a manufacturing company in Iran. It was established in 2006 with the objective manufacturing 150 passenger locomotives in cooperation with Siemens AG . MLC is a subsidiary of MAPNA , a company engaged in power, oil and gas, railroad and other industrial projects. Products The company has produced single ended EuroRunner type locomotives IranRunner under license from Siemens . References reflist External links http www.mapnalocomotive.com MAPNA Locomotive Co. MLC citation url http www.siemens.ir en Transportation.shtml title Siemens Iran Mobility archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20090627081234 http www.siemens.ir en Transportation.shtml archivedate 27 Jun 2009 work www.siemens.ir DEFAULTSORT Mapna Locomotive Engineering And Manufacturing Company Category Engineering companies of Iran Category Rail industry of Iran Iran transport stub Asia company stub loco stub ... more details
The North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group NELPG was formed in 1966 with the intention of preserving some of the steam locomotive s then still working on regular goods or passenger trains in North East England . ref http www.nelpg.org.uk aboutus background index.htm About NELPG Bot generated title ref Now, its aim is to have as many of its steam locomotives running on the main line or preserved lines as possible. For instance, the K1 no. 62005 pulls tourist trains every summer on the West Highland line. The group s workshop is at Hopetown Carriage Works , Darlington although it also has a workshop and base at Grosmont, North Yorkshire Grosmont , the northern most station on the North York Moors Railway . Members of the group hold regular evening meetings to discuss railway subjects, have a membership newsletter, and have produced various publications. Locomotives NELPG NER Class P3 LNER Class J27 no. 65894 Under overhaul at Hopetown Carriage Works NER Class E1 LNER Class J72 no. 69023 Recently overhauled at Hopetown Carriage Works and has seen use at various heritage railways LNER Thompson Peppercorn Class K1 LNER Class K1 no. 62005 Under Overhal Main frame at Hopetown Carrage Works Bolier at Cranforth, when in service usually along NYMR or on the The Jacobite steam train Jacobite steam service in Scotland due back in service Mid to late 2011 NER Class T2 LNER Class Q6 no. 63395 In service on NYMR Other The group does not own the following locomotives but looks after them for the owners LNER Peppercorn Class A2 no. 60532 Blue Peter contract ended August 2011 NER Class T3 LNER Class Q7 no.901 External links The NELPG website http www.nelpg.org.uk References Reflist Category Rail transport in Darlington England rail transport stub ... more details
Railway LMS locomotive numbering and classification London and North Eastern Railway LNER locomotive numbering and classification In the main, new locomotives and multiple units built by BR ... EM1, LNER locomotive numbering and classification Modern Traction see here . The additional prefixes used were AL AC electric locomotive AM AC electric multiple unit The Eastern and North Eastern Regions ... on British Rail. It was based on the format Dx y, where x was the power of the locomotive ... and North Eastern Railway British diesel and electric multiple units Related pages on BR numbering ... systems Category Locomotive classification systems Category British Rail rolling stock de Bezeichnungsschemata von British Rail simple British Rail locomotive and multiple unit numbering and classification ... operated by British Rail ways BR , and this page explains the principal systems. This section also ... GWR locomotive numbering and classification Southern Railway UK Southern Railway SR locomotive ... Big Four company. 1948 numbering and classification Immediately after nationalisation, BR ... locomotives. However, BR decided to adopt the LMS locomotive numbering and classification Classification ... of locomotive numbers, all locomotives were placed into a new number series as follows ... British Railways orders 12xxx Ex LMS shunters 300 hp 224 kW and over 13xxx Diesel electric shunters British Railways orders 150xx Ex LNER shunters 151xx Ex GWR shunters 152xx Ex SR shunters ... Note Number 13000 was initially allocated to a 250 hp 186 kW ex LMS shunter, but this locomotive ... details on these series, see British Rail Regional Multiple Unit Numbering . To classify electric ... be a shunter with a 100 to 199 hp 75 to 148 kW rating, D33 1 would be a Type 5 locomotive ... and classification In the early period of British Railways, steam locomotion had continued to be of prime ... system was used for diesel and electric locomotives ordered by British Railways, including those ... more details
Primarysources date November 2009 File Shopfront.jpg thumb 200px British Boot Company shopfront The British Boot Company formerly known as Holts is a shoe shop in Camden Town in London famous for being the first retailer in the world to sell Dr. Martens footwear in 1958. Holts, the predecessor of British Boot Company, started out in 1851 selling hob nail boots. In the 1980s, the shop changed name to British Boot Company, but the business is still in the same family. In the 1970s and 1980s the shop became a mecca for skinhead s and Punk subculture punks from all over the world, who came to buy boots or brothel creepers . You could also borrow a marker pen and write messages on the walls that would then be read by other skinhead crews or punk bands on tour. In the late 1970s, the shop s charismatic owner, Alan Roumana, formed a close association with the local band North London Invaders, who went on to become the pop band Madness band Madness . Madness used to buy loafers from the shop, and the band featured the store in their music video The Prince . Members of The Clash , Sex Pistols and UK Subs also became regular customers. External links http www.britboot.co.uk British Boot Company Website coord 51.53957 N 0.14251 W type landmark region GB display title Category Shops in London England company stub UK retail company stub ... more details
. Diesel locomotives The British Rail locomotive and multiple unit numbering and classification Modern ... 11001 British Rail Diesel mechanical locomotive.jpg 100px Locomotive 1100 British Rail Class 08 ... List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes Class 18 1985 br Proposed Never Built British Rail ... British Railways Sulzer Type 2 accessdate 2007 02 17 ref Image Diesel locomotive Paignton.jpg none ... open day, 29 September 1990 List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes Class 38 1980s br Proposed ... Front.jpg 100px List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes Class 41 colspan 3 align center N ... TOPS class Built Quantity Withdrawn Image List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes Class 51 ... ref name BRMP07L Image Class 56 diesel locomotive number 56006.jpg 100px British Rail Class 58 Class ... Rail unbuilt locomotive classes Class 62 1990s br Proposed Never Built List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes Class 65 Never Built British Rail Class 66 Class 66 1998 2008 ref name BRMP07L ... locomotive classes Class 75 1960s br Proposed Never Built British Rail Class 76 Class 76 EM1 1952 ... digit 0 9 representing the British Rail locomotive and multiple unit numbering and classification ... 2 Gas turbine British Rail 18000 18000 Prototype mainline gas turbine locomotive built for BR in 1949 ... British Rail 18100 18100 Prototype mainline gas turbine locomotive built for BR in 1951 by Metropolitan ... Locomotive Builder Year Fate Image British Rail D0226 D0226 & D0227 English Electric 1956 D0226 ... post preservation at Haworth British Rail D0260 D0260 Lion Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ... Dp2 kings cross 1963.jpg 100px Demonstration locomotive DP2 at Kings Cross in 1963 British Rail GT3 ... in 1968 British Rail Janus Janus & Taurus br Group of locomotives Yorkshire Engine Company colspan ... at Shelton Unbuilt locomotives main List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes A number of TOPS ... Rail locomotive and multiple unit numbering and classification Steam locomotives of British Railways ... more details
its activities in north Wales, is by Ifor Edwards, The British Iron Company , Denbighshire Historical ...The British Iron Company was formed in 1824 to smelt and manufacture iron and to mine ironstone , coal , etc. It was re formed as the New British Iron Company in 1843 and wound up in 1892. British Iron ... and child employees of the British Iron Company were examined by the Royal Commission on Children s Employment ... Commission. First report. South Staffordshire 1843 508 XIII.1 ref New British Iron Company 1843 ... 24 August 1843 ref ref The British Iron Company s affairs , article from the London Journal of Commerce ... was sold to the Ebbw Vale Company in 1852. At about the same time Plas Issa in north Wales was sold ... that was once occupied by the workers at this site. The New British Iron Company retained ... in smelting. The British Iron Company bought the works in 1825 for 19,541 and at the same time leased ... in Monmouthshire but no further information has been found. North Wales Ruabon The company s principal ... bankruptcy in 1822 the works were idle until bought by the British Iron Company in 1825 for nearly ... of the New British Iron Company from this district the collieries were taken over by the Wynnstay Collieries Company. References Ifor Edwards, The British Iron Company , Denbighshire Historical Society ... of Ruabon , appears to have been in existence in 1809. It was acquired by the British Iron Company ... at Plas Issa, Denbighshire was listed as the property of the British Iron Company in 1847. It was sold to Samuel Giller in about 1852 4. England West Midlands The British Iron Company owned .... The New British Iron Company continued to operate the works until 1894 when it was bought by a former general manager following the liquidation of the New British Iron Company. Production then continued under subsequent owners until 1912. Both the British Iron Company and the New British ... Company until the company was wound up in 1892. Dudley Wood The British Iron Company acquired the ironworks ... more details
Infobox company name British South Africa Company logo File BSAC lion.svg 75px br File Flag of BSAC edit.svg ... in 1889. Modelling the BSAC on the British East India Company , Rhodes hoped it would enable colonization ... Africa Company 1889.jpg thumb The first board of directors of the British South Africa Company, 1889 ... a police force the British South Africa Police . In return, the company agreed to establish .... Eventually, Rhodes and the white principall British settlers he attracted to the company s territory ... established British laws and governments for their own self responsibility answerable only to the company ... force, the Company did not have the backing of any significant British regular forces. Consequently ... depredations as well as to regulate interactions between British colonists and Black tribesmen, the company ... Company army and British militia allowed the BSAC to defeat and replace the Ndebele people Zimbabwe ... British South Africa Company Medal In 1896, Queen Victoria sanctioned the issue by the British South ... of Rhodesia Image BSAC arms.jpg thumb The arms of the British South Africa Company In later years ... of his supporters for British colonization were no longer in control of the company, the royal ..., the British government chose not to renew the Company s charter, and instead accorded self governing ... in the country. The following year, the British South Africa Company merged with the Central ... were owned by the British South African mining company Anglo American plc . During the subsequent ... watch?v 0Sqrk8yn9r4 Chartered companies Category British South Africa Company Category 1889 ... af British South Africa Company cs Britsk Jihoafrick spole nost da British South Africa Company de Britische S dafrika Gesellschaft fr British South Africa Company is Breska Su ur Afr kuf lagi nl British South Africa Company ja no British South Africa Company pl Brytyjska Kompania Po udniowoafryka ska ... simple British South Africa Company fi British South Africa Company sv British South Africa Company ... more details
The NorthBritish Railway was a Scotland Scottish rail transport railway company established in 1844, and absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Railways Act 1921 Grouping in 1923. File ... NorthBritish Hotel on the left History The NorthBritish Railway Company was established in 1844 and opened ... of the NorthBritish system, which ultimately totalled 2,739 miles. Main line The main line was from ... . The NorthBritish was a partner with the North Eastern Railway UK North Eastern Railway and the Great ... Hotel NorthBritish Hotel at the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh city centre forms ... Walter Chalmers 1919 1922 See also Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway NorthBritish Railway Locomotives of the NorthBritish Railway References Notes reflist Sources Hammerton Harmsworth ... Vol1 Thomas NBR Vol2 http www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk NorthBritish Railway Study Group http www.nbrailway.org.uk NorthBritish Railway & Other Railways Big Four pre nationalisation British railway companies LNERconstituents Historical Scottish railway companies Category NorthBritish Railway Category Companies of Scotland Category Pre grouping British railway companies Category LNER constituents Category ... 1844 establishments in Scotland de NorthBritish Railway gd NorthBritish Railway ... to meet the main English routes the London and North Western Railway also the Midland Railway and the North Eastern Railway UK North Eastern Railway respectively . Fife was covered with a network of lines, and the pleasure resorts on the east and west coasts were also served. The company owned ... to the North in the 19th century. English lines Although primarily a Scottish railway, the NBR ... from 1860. Business activities The company s headquarters were at 23 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh ... name Harmsworth Harmsworth 1921 ref Besides its railway, the company also operated Steamboat steamers ... Railway East Fife Central Railway Chief Mechanical Engineers Thomas Wheatley locomotive engineer Thomas ... more details
Company Ltd was a United Kingdom British commercial company formed on 18 October 1922 by British ... from the Big Six companies &mdash Marconi, Metropolitan Vickers, Radio Communication Company, British ... Frank Phillips of Burndept. Incorporation and shares On 18 October 1922, the British Broadcasting Company ... Electric Appliance Company, Limited. British Thomson Houston BTH Sir William Noble, Magnet House ... remit of the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., was to establish a nationwide network of radio ... British Broadcasting Company. Ltd. was formed and then merged into a Crown corporation, in part ...., was originally formed as the British Westinghouse Company. Westinghouse and AT&T were both represented in RCA . British Thomson Houston Company, Ltd., was a controlled UK subsidiary of the General Electric Company in the USA. The Hotpoint Electric Appliance Company, Ltd., was formed by British Thomson Houston BTH in 1921. The only other company later added to the original shareholders of the British ... electrical manufacturers in the UK. Income The British Broadcasting Company Ltd., did not sell air ... BBC Timeline 1922 18 October British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. formed but not registered. 1 November ... as the Company s Managing Director. 15 December British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., registered as an incorporated ... to the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., from the General Post Office. 13 February 5WA began broadcasting ... report which called for the termination of the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., and the creation ... 100 staff and directors of the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., attended a dinner party for Prime ... receiving licences. The contracts of 773 British Broadcasting Company Ltd staff were terminated and, with the dissolution ..., Director of Programmes for the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. His headline asks What s in the air ... Eckersley was hired as Chief Engineer by the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. Broadcast Over Britain ... and images of the early London radio studios of the British Broadcasting Company. The first ... more details
Orphan date December 2009 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The British Electric Traction Company was a company in Mumbai which used to generate electricity in Mumbai since 1882. It had a 1,100 hp 820 kW generator and serviced 107 consumers by 1905. The company was bought over by the Bombay Electric Supply & Tramways Company Limited the same year. See also British Electric Traction . Category Companies established in 1882 Category 1882 establishments in India Category History of Mumbai Category Power companies of India Category Companies disestablished in 1905 Category Companies based in Mumbai India company stub ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2009 In 1934 the British National Films Company was formed in England by J. Arthur Rank , Lady Annie Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood and producer John Corefield . Origin of the company Joseph Arthur Rank was a devout member of the Methodist Church and the son of a millionaire flour miller. On the first day of the week he was a Sunday School teacher and he discovered that if he screened religious films instead of lecturing his class, he got a positive response. His idea spread to other classes held by other churches and in 1933, this motivated J. Arthur Rank to form a Religious Film Society to distribute the films that he wanted to show to other Sunday Schools. Following distribution, J. Arthur Rank then decided to go into the business of producing religious films. Mastership was his first religious film production. It was a twenty minutes film made at Merton Park ... cast, British National could not get wide distribution for the film and when he did, it was as the second half of a double feature. The company struggled to recoup its costs and Rank knew that for British ... British National. Press challenge In the 1930s the Methodist Times newspaper in England began attacking the low moral standards exhibited by British films and by American films shown in United Kingdom ... in Arabian horse reeding. Formation of the company In 1934 J. Arthur Rank, Lady Yule and John Corefield formed the British National Films Company and went into production in answer to the challenge by the Evening News to the Methodist Times . In 1935, British Nationa commenced production of their first ... Three Fevers . The setting, which Rank knew from childhood, was Robin Hood s Bay on the north ... family friendly United Kingdom British film in answer to the Hollywood style movies that Alexander Korda ... within a year. By 1935 Charles Boot had approached British National about taking over ownership ... The problems that British National experienced in distributing Turn of the Tide , were eventually ... more details
Refimprove date October 2009 Infobox Company name British Tanker Company Limited logo File British Tanker Company Flag.JPG 200px caption British Tanker Company flag 1915 1926 company type foundation 1915 ... products revenue net income num employees British Tanker Company Limited was the maritime transport arm of the Anglo Persian Oil Company , the forerunner of BP . The British Tanker Company was formed ... for the company to possess its own fleet of oil tanker tankers . It set up the British Tanker Company ... and Iron Company Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Newcastle British Beacon 1918 style text align ... and Iron Company Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Newcastle Sunk 2 December 1941 by mine British ... and Iron Company Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Newcastle British Chivalry 1929 style ... British Commerce 1922 style text align Center 4,205 William Beardmore and Company William Beardmore ... Company Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee British Confidence 1936 style text ... Dockyard Company Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd, Greenock British Engineer 1922 style text align Center 6,993 ... 1921 style text align Center 4,204 File British Enterprise 1921.jpg 50px William Beardmore and Company ... & Engineering Company Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee British Fame 1936 ... British Freedom 1928 style text align Center 6,985 Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Palmers ... 6,991 Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Newcastle British Hope ... Shipbuilding and Iron Company Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Newcastle British Influence 1939 ... and Iron Company Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Newcastle British Lady 1923 style text align ... text align Center 6,470 File British Light 1917.jpg 50px Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Palmers ... text align Center 6,994 File British Merchant 1922.jpg 50px William Beardmore and Company William ... text align Center 6,990 File British Officer 1922.jpg 50px Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Palmers ... more details
locomotive showing the steeplecab arrangement North Eastern Railway UK North Eastern Railway British ...About locomotives that run on rails the type of heavy haulage traction engine Road locomotive disambiguation the Russian Association football football club FC Lokomotiv Moscow the 1960s British band Locomotive band Image Three loco styles.jpg thumb Three body styles of diesel locomotive cab unit , hood ... R class R class steam locomotive number R707 as operated by the Victorian Railways of Rail transport ... locomotive repainted in its original livery for the Sweden Swedish History of rail transport in Sweden 150 year railway anniversary in 2006. A locomotive is a Rail transport railway vehicle that provides ... form of the term locomotive engine , ref cite web title Locomotive work etymology publisher Online Etymology Dictionary url http www.etymonline.com index.php?term locomotive accessdate 2008 06 ... stationary steam engines. A locomotive has no payload capacity of its own, and its sole purpose is to move ... a locomotive pulls the train in one direction and pushes it in the other, and can be controlled from ... steam locomotive hauled a train along the Rail transport tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales . Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers .... The locomotive only ran three trips before it was abandoned. Trevithick built a series of locomotives ... The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray s rack railway rack locomotive .... This was followed in 1813 by the Puffing Billy locomotive Puffing Billy built by Christopher Blackett and William Hedley for the Wylam Colliery Railway, the first successful locomotive running by rail ... in London , the oldest locomotive in existence. ref Ellis, pp. 20 22 ref In 1814 George Stephenson .... He built the Bl cher locomotive Bl cher , one of the first successful flange d wheel adhesion locomotives ... for the Stockton and Darlington Railway , north east England, which became the first public ... more details
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