Hawthorn Leslie and Company
R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Limited, usually referred to as Hawthorn Leslie briefly today, a British mobile phone company, which was a shipbuilding company and until 1937 also in locomotive until 1982.
- 2.1 locomotives received
History
The company went public in 1870 from the merger of the shipyard A. Leslie and Company, Hebburn with the locomotive manufacturer R. and W. Hawthorn from St.Peter ' s in Newcastle upon Tyne forth, and in 1886 converted into a limited company.
In 1890 they built a first triple-expansion steam engine for the steamer Orel, in the year 1900, one machine of the steamer Canadian ago.
1907 was an area that joined to the existing Forth Banks, acquired to expand the operation and at the beginning of the First World War they were able to deliver except ships, steam engines and turbines, water tube boilers and various types of locomotives.
The Locomotive was issued in 1937 to Robert Stephenson and Company, which thereupon. , Under the name of Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd changed its name.
One of the most famous ships, which originated at Hawthorn Leslie, was the 1938 passed by the stack and commanded by Louis Mountbatten HMS Kelly. 1954 a reorganization of the corporation. The shipbuilding and repair yard employs 1961 2200 employees who for the airline service also cooling and bulk carriers, tankers and warships produce except in the construction of passenger and cargo ships.
From 1967, only four ships were built under the aegis of Swan Hunter. On 1 July 1977 Hawthorn Leslie was incorporated in the State British Shipbuilders Corporation. The engineering was combined in 1979 with the engine also nationalized enterprises George Clark & NEM to Clark Hawthorn.
Hawthorn Leslie shipyard in Hebburn trunk was closed in 1982, and sold the rest at Cammell Laird company. In 2001 it was sold to the A & P Group, but has since remained unused. However, the actual company remained despite the loss of shipbuilding exist and focused on the phone business. In March 1993, Vodafone bought the company and converts it to the wireless provider.
Known ships of Hawthorn Leslie
- HMS Triumph
- HMS Naiad
- HMS Argonaut
- RFA Bedivere
- HMS Active
- HMS Agincourt
- HMS Antelope
- HMS Boadicea
- HMS Electra
- HMS Encounter
- HMS Imogen
- HMS Imperial
- HMS Legion
- HMS Warwick
Lokomotivbau
The locomotive of Hawthorn Leslie covered a wide range of standard and individual designs, including many tender and steam locomotives memory. These were both great railway companies, as well as supplied industrial railways, a major portion of the production was developed for export to the British colonies and the needs of the local railway companies.
1887 supplied to the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway 2 -4- 2T locomotives and completed in the following year to a Kranlok for Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company. After the Merger set the locomotive department for the World Expo 1893 in Chicago, a four-cylinder engine, with the Achsaufteilung 4-2-2-0 ago, at the two internal and two external cylinders worked separately on a pair of axes. However, the locomotive was not powerful enough to compete with American products in the same era can, but it was again issued in the following year in Antwerp. Hawthorne Leslie built a whole series of locomotives for known railway companies. This results in 1899 two 2-4-0 locomotives for the Kent and East Sussex Railway, 1896-1901 four 0-4-4 locomotives for the Metropolitan Railway, or 1907 depending on a 0-8-0 tank locomotive for the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway and the Kent and East Sussex Railway. The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway receives two 1911 0-6-2 T locomotives and the Taff Vale Railway is supplied during the First World War with a series of 27 locomotives of similar design. 1915 issued FG Smith of the Highland Railway the contract to build six 4-6-0 locomotives to split his designs. However, these were not removed because they were too heavy fall and then sold to the Caledonian Railway. The London and North Eastern Railway has ordered 1925/6, a series of GCR class 9N locomotives. In the late 1920s and electric locomotives were taken into the program.
Between 1934 and 1935 built Hawthorn Leslie eleven diesel locomotives of the 0-6-0 wheel arrangement for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which were referred to the takeover by British Rail as Class D3 / 6. In 1935 the Great Western Railway diesel locomotive with a 0-6-0 wheel arrangement, which was referred to the takeover by the British Rail Class D3/10 as. The locomotives had a diesel-electric drive, the electric part of English Electric was established.
Locomotives received
Some Hawthorn Leslie tender locomotives have survived to the present day, including a copy of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, the 37 " Invincible ," with the wheel arrangement 0-4-0, the " 3717 " in the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, the " Cyclops " of the Tanfield Railway and a further copy of the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway is to be overhauled. Both the Rutland Railway Museum, as well as the Cambrian Railway Trust each have a 0-6-0 ST locomotive to be restored. Another locomotive of this type is exhibited in Leatherhead. An electrically powered shunting the power plant in Kearsley is in the Coventry Railway Centre, issued in Coventry, Warwickshire.