BROTHERHOOD
ounded in 1907, Peter Brotherhood of Peterborough emerged from the First World War with eleven acres of factory space and 2000 employees. It had made steam engines and turbines, compressors, IC engines, pumps, fans and refrigeration plants for the Admiralty and Ministry of Munitions and urgently needed more products for civvy street. The first was the Peterbro spark-ignition tractor and then in 1921 an undertype steam wagon with transverse boiler and high and low pressure cylinders on either side of the chassis designed by CH Mann, who had created the Mann Steam Cart. Schweppes operated the first but after the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co had allegedly complained that the boiler layout infringed its own patents, Peter Brotherhood seems to have done little to promote the vehicle. Few seem to
