In Ireland, Hunslet supplied engines to several of the newly opened narrow gauge lines and also in 1887 built the three unorthodox 0-3-0 engines for the Lartigue Monorail system used by the Listowel Ballybunion Railway. Richard Peacock of Beyer-Peacock. Please edit the template that is in the actual article & replace this template message with some {{. Material in the National Railway Museum archives(PDF) The industry went through several periods of boom and bust and during hard times the association tried to share out orders in such a way as to ensure work to the firms that needed it most. In 1991 Telfos sold most of the above including the Hunslet Engine Co to the Jenbacher Group of Austria. [4] Hunslet produced 149 Austeritys during the hostilities, and sub-contracted construction of almost 200 more. Throughout the 1930s Hunslet worked on the perfecting of the diesel locomotive.

A year or so later the same design formed the basis for an 0-8-0 tender engine for India. The last three Austerities were sold in 1970; one directly to preservation, one for scrap and one to the NCB.[4]. Dolbadarn built for the Dinorwic Slate Quarries in 1922 and now on the Llanberis Lake Railway. It continued to produce limited numbers of locomotives, significant examples being lightweight narrow gauge 4-6-0T designs for the War Department Light Railways. 3 Preserved and running on the, Jack's Green Preserved and currently stored at the, No. In Ireland, Hunslet supplied engines to several of the newly opened narrow gauge lines and also in 1887 built the three remarkably unorthodox engines for the Lartigue Monorail system used by the Listowel & Ballybunion Railway. Tractor & Construction Plant Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. The first Hunslet engine built for export was their No. Beyer, Peacock. Please advise us if you spot any links that are broken or pointing to inappropriate material using the contact us below. [4] 1589 Newstead Preserved and undergoing overhaul at the, NZR/PWD Y class number 542 (Hunslet No. The Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds works closed in 1995, the last order being for narrow gauge diesel locomotives used in the tunnelling on the Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground. On learning that the London & North Western Railway were supplying locomotives to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and were looking at supplying to other railways Charles Sacie of the Yorkshire Engine Co in Rotherham wrote to many of the other independant locomotive manufacturers and a meeting was called on the 29th April 1875. 1905 Following the death of James Campbell, the chairmanship passed to Alexander III and brother Robert became works manager, whilst brother Will retained the role of secretary and traveller with a seat on the board. This basic standard gauge shunting and short haul engine was the standard locomotive that the firm built for industrial use for many years. Beginning in 1873, a large number of Hunslet locomotives were exported to Australia for use on both main line and lesser lines.[1]. This quarry was linked to Port Dinorwic by a 4 ft(1,219 mm) gauge line for which Hunslet built three 0-6-0T engines Dinorwic, Padarn and Velinheli. [1] Many other 'large-engine' orders were received in these inter-war years. [note 1], Many short wheelbase 0-6-0T locomotives were supplied to the Manchester Ship Canal Company in the 1880s.[1]. The number of steam locomotives built by Hunslet is 2,236. The firm became a limited company in 1902 but the Campbell family and later the Alcock family retained control.

In 1901, James Campbell was still in charge as proprietor and James's four sons were, by then all working for the company including the eldest son Alexander III who had taken over as Works Manager on the death of his Uncle George in 1890. Locomotive construction resumed after the war. The third of a series of four locomotives is currently under construction. 1 Preserved and running on the, Holly Bank No. Type locomotive class, number or any details into search box. Important in post-war production was the Hunslet flame-proof diesel engine for use in the coal mines, as well as further batches of Austerity shunters for the National Coal Board (NCB) and the British Army, and rebuilding of some older Austeritys, work which continued into the early 1960s. In 1972 Hunslet purchased Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co. Other independent British manufacturers failed to survive the depression of the 1920s and 30s and Hunslet acquired the patterns, rights and designs of other builders including Kerr, Stuart & Company and the Avonside Engine Company. 10, an 0-4-0ST shipped via Hull and Rotterdam to Java. While some companies couldn't be saved their designs and goodwill could be passed on to other companies within the association thus helping other manufacturing firms.

Locomotive building continued in a smaller way at other factories in the Group.

During the second world war, the company again served the country well in the manufacture of munitions, but they also built engines, both steam and diesel for the war effort. The 1,000th locomotive was completed in 1909. After the First World War, Hunslet were once more able to attract overseas orders and they also received a series of repeat orders from the London, Midland & Scottish Railway for 90 LMS Fowler Class 3F 'Jinty' 0-6-0T shunting engines. Around 1905 this time Hunslet built a series of 2-6-2 tank locomotives for the Sierra Leone Government Railway and the famous narrow gauge version (Russell) for the Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway, which later became a constituent company of the Welsh Highland Railway. Hunslet Engine Co and Hawthorn Leslie joined at the meeting of 16th July 1875 with Fox Walker joining in the November. The Hunslet Engine Works, D.H. Townsley, ISBN 1-871980-38-0[2] Look for this book on Amazon* In 1957 the organisation changed its name to the Locomotive and Allied Manufacturers Association and in 1971 it was changed again to the Railway Industry Association. This locomotive has been sold and is housed at the Amerton Railway and is the first steam locomotive built and sold by Hunslet in 37 years.

This basic standard gauge shunting and short haul 'industrial' engine was to be the main-stay of Hunslet production for many years. The first Hunslet engine built for export was their No.

Robert Stephenson & HawthornWorks No 7139 was rebuilt by the Hunslet Engine Company as Works No 3880. Throughout the 1930s Hunslet worked on the perfecting of the diesel locomotive. They produced several new locomotives of the Quarry Hunslet (including Statfold) and Kerr Stuart Wren types, which were given works numbers following on from Trangkil No 4 in the Hunslet series.

In January 2007 Jack Lane was offered for sale by the manufacturers for 152,750 (Railway Magazine, February 2007). Other customers included collieries. The "Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds" works was closed in 1995, the last order being a batch of narrow gauge diesel locomotives for tunnelling on the Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground. Since the first two Quarry Hunslet locomotives were built, a Kerr Stuart Wren class has been built by the Hunslet Steam Co (also part of the LH Group)[13] and was completed early in 2008 numbered 3905. James Campbell was appointed as the Works Manager. A total of 485 Austerities were built by Hunslet and other builders between 1943 and 1964, of which over 70 examples have entered preservation. Copyright MMXXII. [3] This restriction survived until the Transport Act of 1968. In 2004 the Hunslet Engine Company was acquired by the LH Group and production was moved to Barton under Needwood in Staffordshire. [5]

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This engine later returned to Britain and is preserved in working order. The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell (son of Alexander Campbell, a Leeds engineer) as his Works Manager. In 1930 Kerr, Stuart and Co went in to liquidation and Hunslet purchased the goodwill of this company. Graham Lee is chairman of LH Group Services Ltd - which in 2005 bought what remained of the Hunslet Engine Company.

Alcock came to Hunslet at a time of change when the industry was being asked for far larger and more powerful locomotives than had ever been required in the past. A large number of short wheelbase 0-6-0 tank locomotives were supplied to the Manchester Ship Canal Company and one of these (Works No.686 The Lady Armaghdale of 1898) still survives in the Engine House at Highley on the Severn Valley Railway. Two of the Hunslet built Jinty locomotives have been preserved 47445 and 47564. Robert Stephenson & HawthornWork No 7136 was rebuilt by the Hunslet Engine Company as Works No3892, Vulcan Foundry Works No 5272 was rebuilt by the Hunslet Engine Company as Works No 3879, Thomas Muir The Saved & The Forgotten Four. This website is maintained by AM Johnson and K Ward In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for 25,000 (payable in five instalments over two years) and the firm remained in the Campbell family ownership for many years. [12] The same year saw the completion of several orders for underground and mining diesel locomotives. Many of these have been preserved. Locomotive Manufacturers in the Association over the years included (no doubt there will be others to add to this list): Avonside Engine Co, Bristol; W.G. Justice Sir J Jessel found in favour of the manufacturers on 16th December 1875 and the action resulted in a High Court injunction preventing railway company workshops from manufacturing locomotives for sale or hire and effectively limiting them to supplying their own locomotive needs. In 2011 Brush Traction and Brush-Barclay were purchased by Wabtec.[21]. They were two 0-8-0 tank engines, built for a special train-ferry loading job in China (which they fulfilled for many years). During the Second World War they designed the Austerity 0-6-0STs which were produced as a national standard shunting engine and built many of them. Details of a LMA Promotional Film 'The Locomotive' Circa 1949 in the Scottish Screen Archive[2] Ffestiniog Hunslets include: A number of other Hunslet (and predecessor companies) locos have visited one or more of the FR, WHR/RhE, and WHHR. 2 Preserved and currently undergoing an overhaul at, No. [5] The post of works manager was advertised and Edgar Alcock, then assistant works manager at the Gorton works of Beyer, Peacock and Co was appointed in 1912. The Hunslet Engine Company, is now part of the LH Group of Companies. From the start, Hunslet regularly sent fitters to carry out repairs to its engines on customers premises and this is a service that the Hunslet Engine Company were still offering in 2006, over 140 years after their establishment. In Ireland, Hunslet supplied engines to several of the newly opened narrow gauge lines and also in 1887 built the three remarkably unorthodox engines for the Lartigue Monorail system used by the "Listowel & Ballybunion Railway". Levys charged on some orders amongst LMA members helped to subsidise others, helping the British manufacturers remain competetive against tenders from overseas firms. From Festipedia, hosted by the FR Heritage Group, Companies House online, accessed March 2020, https://www.festipedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Hunslet_Engine_Company&oldid=75429, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Hunslet-GMT in Leeds, (mining, industrial, narrow-gauge and rack locos), Hunslet-Barclay in Kilmarnock (SG shunters, diesel railcars, passenger train refurbishment), Ganz-Hunslet in Budapest (train and tram building for European markets), Hunslet-Taylor in South Africa (locos for Africa), Hunslet Transportation Projects Ltd in Leeds and Birmingham (new passenger trains), Townsley, D.H. (1998) The Hunslet Engine Works, Plateway Press, This page was last edited on 30 March 2020, at 23:05.

By 1901, James Campbell was still in charge as proprietor and Jamess four sons were, by then all working for the company including the eldest son Alexander III who had taken over as Works Manager on the death of his Uncle George in 1890. [5] The success of this action persuaded the companies involved of the importance of having a formal body for their mutual benefit. [5], The last industrial steam engine built in Britain was built at Hunslet in 1971 for export to Trangkil sugar mill in Central Java, Indonesia. In October 2007 Hunslet-Barclay went into receivership and in November was purchased by FKI (the owner of Brush Traction) and renamed Brush-Barclay. Locomotive construction continued with renewed vigour after the war. 1440 Airedale Preserved and currently stored at, No. Steam locomotive work is now undertaken by Statfold Engineering Ltd. [3] Hunslet produced 149 Austerities during the hostilities, and sub-contracted construction of almost 200 more. The company was founded by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell (son of Alexander Campbell, a Leeds engineer who had helped set up Manning Wardle & Co on a site next door to Hunslet) as his Works Manager, who served for nearly 40 years, and in 1871 became the sole owner of the Company. 3782 Arthur Preserved and undergoing overhaul at the, No. Particularly noteworthy is their role in the production of the "Austerity" 0-6-0ST shunting locomotive. * These links are provided to help readers search for often rare books on the subject and to promote any books available, we are under no commercial incentives for this. Hunslet specialised in the industrial and narrow-gauge market and established a good reputation. [5] The locomotive is privately owned but will form part of the regular service trains at Amerton. In 1870, Hunslet constructed their first narrow gauge engine Dinorwic, a diminutive .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1ft10+34in (578mm) gauge 0-4-0ST for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis. A large number of short wheelbase tank locomotives (0-6-0) were supplied to the Manchester Ship Canal Company and one of these (No.686 of 1898 'St. The Steam Company was dissolved in 2018[1]. [1] It was decided at a further meeting on 31st March 1876 to make the association permenant. This article was produced by Kris Ward, any feedback or contributions about the Leeds engine making industry would be greatly appreciated. It was during the 1930s that Hunslet built their largest locomotives; two 0-8-0T engines, built for a special train-ferry loading job in China they were at that date the largest and most powerful tank engines ever built.

1444) is preserved at Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology. In 1902, the company was reorganised as a private limited company with the name Hunslet Engine Company Ltd but still a family business. 1444) is preserved at the, This page was last edited on 1 July 2022, at 18:57. The Current RIA website[1] From 1873 onwards many Hunslet locomotives were exported to Australia for use on both main line and lesser lines.[2]. It was an austerity revision of the 50550 shunter design, itself a development of the Hunslet 48150 shunter design, of which 16 had been built pre-war. The Company site can be found here [1] It chiefly undertook maintenance and refurbishment of diesel multiple unit passenger trains at the Andrew Barclay Caledonia Works in Kilmarnock. None of these have been preserved. The Hunslet Engine Company is a locomotive-building company, founded in 1864 in Hunslet, England. During the Second World War, the company again served the country well in the manufacture of munitions, but they also built engines, both steam and diesel for the war effort. [9] The first locomotive of the new class, the DH60C, a 3 axle C diesel hydraulic shunting locomotive was unveiled in July 2010.[10][11]. The post of works manager was advertised and Edgar Alcock, then assistant works manager at the Gorton Foundry of Beyer-Peacock, was appointed in 1912. Bagnall Ltd, Stafford; Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. Ltd., Kilmarnock; Beyer Peacock & Co. Ltd. Manchester; Dubs & Co, Glasgow; Fox Walker & Co, Bristol; R.& W.Hawthorn, Newcastle; Hudswell Clarke & Co. Ltd, Leeds; The Hunslet Engine Co. Ltd, Leeds; Kitson & Co, Leeds; Manning, Wardle & Co. Leeds; Nasmyth Wilson & Co, Patricroft; Naysmith, Gaskell & Co, Patricroft; North British Locomotive Company Limited, Glasgow; Peckett & Sons Ltd, Bristol; Robert Stephenson & Co, Newcastle on Tyne; Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns, Ltd, Darlington & Newcastle on Tyne; Sharp Stewart & Co, Glasgow; The Vulcan Foundry Ltd, Newton le Willows; Yorkshire Engine Co. Ltd, Sheffield[2][4] In 2007 Hunslet began developing a new family of locomotives ranging from shunters to vehicles weighing up to 100 tons. About this time Hunslet was building a series of 2-6-2Ts for the Sierra Leone Government Railway design elements of which were included in the construction of the famous Russell a 1ft11+12in (597mm) gauge engine built for the Portmadoc, Beddgelert & South Snowdon Railway. The most notable locomotive design that Hunslet produced around this time was the 0-6-0ST Austerity of which 485 were built including 377 for the War Department. [note 2], The "Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds" works was closed in 1995, the last order being a batch of narrow gauge diesel locomotives for tunnelling on the Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground. [4] In the depression of the 1920s and 30s that saw a lot of the independant manufacturers disappear the association was important in reorganising the struggling industry. In 1902, the company was reorganised as a private limited company with the name Hunslet Engine Company Ltd. but was still a family business. Following family disagreements both Will and the youngest brother Gordon soon left the company and a serious injury left Robert disabled and unable to continue as works manager. J.H.Kitson of Kitson & Co made a motion, seconded by Sacie, that each company should contribute to a fund to take action to prevent further inroads into their business by railway company works. John') still survives on the Severn Valley Railway and is still in regular use as a 'Thomas The Tank Engine' lookalike. In 1870, Hunslet constructed their first narrow gauge engine Dinorwic, a diminutive 1 ft10+34in(578 mm) gauge 0-4-0 saddle tank for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis in North wales. 3783 Darfield No. Alcock came to Hunslet at a time of change when the industry was being asked for far larger and more powerful locomotives than had ever been required in the past. Two of these still operate on the Ffestiniog Railway while Charles is preserved in the Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum.

Irish Mail is typical of many small engines built at Hunslet for use in quarries. Other customers included collieries. [18] In 2021, the business was purchased by Ed Murray & Sons. In 1972 Hunslet took over Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co but the two firms retained their separate identities for some time. In 2003 the LH Group acquired the locomotive interests of the company. Between 1865 and 1870, production had averaged less than ten engines per year, but in 1871 this had risen to seventeen and was set to rise over the next thirty years to a modest maximum of thirty-four. I would welcome any information which I can use to improve the site. In 2004 Jenbacher sold the Hunslet Engine Company to the LH Group. It continued to produce limited numbers of locomotives, significant examples being lightweight narrow gauge 4-6-0T designs for the War Department Light Railways. After the war, trading conditions were very difficult but Hunslet were once more able to attract overseas orders and they also received a series of repeat orders from the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for a total of 90 LMS Fowler Class 3F 'Jinty' 0-6-0T shunting engines.