Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Chapters: Thomas Hill Ltd, Charles Burrell & Sons, Armstrong Whitworth, Sentinel Waggon Works, Kerr Stuart, Derby Works, Hunslet Engine Company, Melton Constable Railway Works, Swindon Works, Yorkshire Engine Company, William Beardmore and Company, Richard Hornsby & Sons, List of early British private locomotive manufacturers, Hudswell Clarke, English Electric, North British Locomotive Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, Greenwood & Batley, Beyer, Peacock and Company, Thomas Green & Son, Brush Traction, Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Avonside Engine Company, Robert Hudson Ltd, British Thomson-Houston, R A Lister and Company, Boston Lodge, W. G. Bagnall, Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Company, Dübs and Company, De Winton, Metro Cammell, Bassett-Lowke, Crewe Works, Duffield Bank Railway, William Fairbairn & Sons, F. C. Hibberd & Co., Kitson and Company, Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, B. Hick and Sons, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, Aveling and Porter, Leeds Forge Company, Benjamin Hick, Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, Muir-Hill, Neilson and Company, Clyde Locomotive Company, Ernest E. Baguley, Merryweather & Sons, John Fowler & Co., Haigh Foundry, List of British railway-owned locomotive builders, Tulk and Ley, Manning Wardle, Bowesfield Works, Exmoor Steam Railway, Sharp, Roberts and Company, Drewry Car Co., Cowlairs railway works, R and W Hawthorn, Peckett and Sons, Doncaster Works, BREL, Avonside Locomotive Works, Clayton Equipment Company, Alan Keef, Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Bromsgrove railway works, George England, Fletcher, Jennings & Co., St. Rollox railway works, Winson Engineering, Fenton, Murray and Jackson, Severn Lamb, E. B. Wilson and Company, Dick, Kerr & Co., Foster, Rastrick and Company, Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell, Stephen Lewin, Jones, Turner and Evans, Black, Hawthorn & Co, Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Shepherd and Todd, George Forrester and Company, Dodds, Isaac and Son, Motor Rail, Mather, Dixon and Company, Day, Summers and Company, TMA Engineering, R. B. Longridge and Company, Gilkes Wilson and Company, Hugh Phillips Engineering, Stark and Fulton, British Electric Vehicles, William and Alfred Kitching, Wingrove & Rogers, Tram Power, Thompson & Cole, Fossick & Hackworth. Excerpt: Thomas Hill (Rotherham) Limited was a company which repaired and sold steam road vehicles, diesel and electric road vehicles and railway locomotives. It later made its name building and rebuilding diesel locomotives. The Company was founded by Mr. Thomas A. Hill in 1937 with small premises at Whiston, near Rotherham, and was principally concerned with repair and maintenance of steam road vehicles, and in particular Sentinel steam waggons which were popular in the area. The Company also became involved in battery electric vehicles built by Douglas (Kingswood) Limited, and was incorporated in 1942 as Thomas Hill (Steam and Electric Vehicles) Limited, TH(SEV). Around this time the Sentinel company was developing a diesel engined road vehicle fitted with a Sentinel horizontal diesel engine. This innovative vehicle attracted the attention of TH(SEV) and in 1946 an agency agreement were signed between the two companies. In 1947 Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd offered TH(SEV) to extend the agreement for diesel vehicles to include their range of steam locomotives and an agency was accepted by TH(SEV) for sales and servicing. TH (SEV) were now engaged in sales and se...