Locomotive & Rolling Stock Manufacturers

[MarcD]

A photo of one appears in one of the Hudson private owner books. The wagons were 15ft long on a 9ft wheel base and rated to 12tons. They would have traveled mainly from the docks at barrow to the works at ulverston. There were wooden hoppers as well. 

Marc

[sir douglas]

Hudson and Head Wrightson

[steaming_chris]

On 27/01/2011 at 17:28, Arthur said:

A few more, the first from 1944, just 10 days after D Day;

 

the rest from 1958;

 

Hi Everyone,

Are there any line drawings available, that would show overall dimensions of the 0-6-0 DM. If I could be pointed in the right direction, I'd be grateful.

Regards

[Michael Edge]

That's HC D999, Most of the Hudswell drawings are at Statfold Barn, usually identified by the works number.

[Busmansholiday]

Being new on here I'm slowly working my way around things so this topic looks like the appropriate place to add these adverts that I managed to scan from various company books during my nearly 40 years in the steel industry.

 

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[Busmansholiday]

Missed one.

 

[sir douglas]

also you can find a lot of builders catalogues, not just British but US and European on the Historical railway Images flickr, it also has 1000's of works photos

https://www.flickr.com/photos/124446949@N06/

 

for example "catalogue" search in his photos

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=124446949%40N06&view_all=1&text=catalogue

[Ruston]

Edited January 5, 2023 by Ruston

[moore43grm]

[Ruston]

We've had advertisements from locomotive and rolling stock wheel manufacturers in this topic, so why not see how they were made?

 

[Ruston]

Colour version of one that Arthur posted on the first page.

[Ruston]

[Ruston]

One from Andrew Barclay. Of particular interest is the inside-cylindered 0-6-0ST. I've never seen such a thing by Barclay before.

[david65061]

The eight wheeled passenger loco has ten wheels?

[Mol_PMB]

On 25/01/2011 at 11:58, Arthur said:

I've changed the topic title to better reflect the inclusion of rolling stock ads. Here are some for the Distington Foundry, once part of the United Steel Companies Empire (which included the Yorkshire Engine Company), and, by 1967, part of the British Steel Corporation.

 

By the time of these ads. the other torpedo ladle builders, Ashmore Benson, Pease & Company and Head, Wrightson, were part of the Davy International group and as the only potential customer was the British Steel Corporation, Distington had somewhat of a competitive advantage...

 

The first two are related to the only British example of long distance movement of hot metal over the national network.

 

More here: http://www.rmweb.co....lling-stock-10/

 

The ads may look identical but the small images are different. The first ad.shows three images of them in build, the second shows the first test train on B.R., shunting by one of Consett's Hunslets at the works and discharge into a transfer ladle at the B.O.S. plant.

 

 

 

Distington built a good number of these vehicles, the six shown in 1969 were those built for the Cargo Fleet-Consett service and the nine 300t capacity ones in 1970 were for Shotton Steelworks. It's a pity, as John observed earlier, that they do not show prices. I worked at Shotton in1974 and these ladles were out of use at the back of the open hearth melting shop and the Kling ladles were back in service. Whether they were ever used again I do not know, but it seemed somewhat wasteful of what must have been a very expensive bit of machinery.

 

 

And in contrast, from 1929, an ad. for Dewhursts of Sheffield, who must have built hundreds, if not thousands, of the typical British slag ladle.

 

 

Only just discovered this thread and having a read back through. Many of the Distington torpedoes are now at Port Talbot, they collected them from several other steelworks and consequently have four different types of varying capacity. Many are the 250t and 300t capacity ones illustrated above, the newest ones are 350t capacity built at Port Talbot to an enlarged and strengthened version of the Distington design. 

[doilum]

2 hours ago, Ruston said:

One from Andrew Barclay. Of particular interest is the inside-cylindered 0-6-0ST. I've never seen such a thing by Barclay before.

So that job lot from ebay has a Hunslets tank and a Peckett cab....

[Ruston]

Probably narrow gauge but never mind.

Edited December 30, 2021 by Ruston

[Michael Edge]

Looks like 3ft 6in gauge - Western Australia or Queensland?

[Ruston]

What a shame that most of the pictures have disappeared.

 

I found this one online and have no idea what publication it was in but the loco would have been w/n 694, built 1891 and was Barclay's first 0-6-0ST. Built for use at Woodland Colliery, Butterknowle, Co. Durham.

[Ruston]

On 23/03/2011 at 20:20, Arthur said:

Rolling stock is all very well but what about track;

 

 

[Ruston]

[Ruston]

From an ad in the Great Western Railway magazine, Feb. 1934. The loco is probably one of either W/n 5701, 02 or 03 of 1933.

Edited January 13, 2023 by Ruston