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H GIBBONS & SONS (* known surviving engines)

1884 Fowler 8hp convertible PLG/RL

No. 4732 or 4733?

c1888 Robey 7hp singe-cylinder (trickle) traction engine.

1888 Burrell 7hp single-cylinder TE No. 1332 EW4349, ex-J H Mitchell, Wansford, Huntingdon.

1888 Hornsby 6hp single-cylinder TE No. 6457 FL3899, ex-E Maxwell, Bedfordshire; scrapped by Gibbons.

*1889 Hornsby 8hp single-cylinder TE No.6557 FL2598 Maggie, ex Stoke of Peterborough No. 30 in fleet,

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