EB Wilson's Railway Foundry produced locomotives for many of the early railway comapnies as well as a number of overseas orders including several important orders for Spain and India. Many of their locomotives were based on the popular Jenny Lind design. The company also experimented with marine engines and road steam.
Made 'electric vehicles, trucks and locomotives' at their Prospect Works in Otley between 1914 and 1933
One of the best known of the Leeds firms having produced many notable designs such as the Austerity 0-6-0STs and the Quarry Hunslets, this company's varied products were supplied all over the world. Parts were also supplied to other builders including gear boxes to BR Swindon for the class 14 0-6-0DH locos. Babcock and Wilcox built a few Hunslet locomotives in Spain under licence.
Charles Roe began by making trailers for locally produced traction engines produced and bodies for commercial vehicles in a rented works on Balm Road. They went on to make large numbers of bus bodies in a much larger works in Cross Gates.
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EBW
EB Wilson
Rail
Road
Other Items
Works History
3 survivors out of 613 records, 0.49% survive
Elect
Electromobile (Leeds)
Rail
Road
Works History
0 survivors out of 0 records
HE
Hunslet Engine Co
Rail
Road
Other Items
Works History
972 survivors out of 7676 records, 12.66% survive
ROE
Charles Roe
Rail
Road
Works History
1 survivor out of 2 records, 50% survive
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