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The World's First Locomotive Factory
Published by The Robert Stephenson Trust. 62pp illustrated. £6.00
Of all Britain's locomotive manufacturers. Robert Stephenson and Co. (RH&C) in its various guises was the oldest, established in 1823, theand Manning Wardle, delivering by 1937 4,155 locomotives, sometimes at a rate of 50 a year. Hardly a railway country in the world did not at some time have an engine they had manufactured. What is not so well known is that RS&C built many wrought iron bridge and were very involved in marine construction, producing ships boilers and engines. Such was this involvement that they leased a shipyard and later began the construction of a large graving dock.
