Manning Wardle
Manning, Wardle and Co. was a locomotive factory for steam locomotives in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Prehistory
The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centers of Lokomotivbaues: Matthew Murray built 1812 in Holbeck, Leeds, the first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca. After 1856 a number of locomotive workshops produced in the city, including the company EB Wilson and Company in Pearson Street, Hunslet.
Manning Wardle
E. B. Wilson and Company was founded in 1858. Their designs were bought by Manning, Wardle and Co., which was founded in 1840 their machine shop in the Jack Lane in Hunslet district of the city. In the next few years opened in Jack Lane, two other companies, the Hunslet Engine Company and Hudswell, Clarke & Company. The staff often changed between the three companies, which led to similar designs of the products of all three companies. While Hudswell Clarke and Hunslet Engine Company built a wide variety of locomotive types, Manning Wardle concentrated on locomotives that were ordered by the contractors for special operations, as well as to all types of contract work.
Many Manning Wardle locomotives - to standard gauge and narrow gauge different gauges - were exported to Europe, Africa, delivered to the Middle East as the Class M for Palestine Railways, India, Australia and New Zealand ( NZR Class Wh ) and South America.
Decline and closure
The company built during its existence in traditional style. It has failed to take advantage of the efficient mass production. As a result, Manning Wardle was not competitive. The company stopped operating after the production of more than 2,000 steam locomotives in 1927.
The last complete locomotive was No. 2047, a C -coupled Normalspurtenderlok for the Rugby Cement Works in August 1926. This locomotive was kept in the Kidderminster Railway Museum and transferred to Bridgnorth. There, the engine was disassembled. You should be prepared operational, including a new boiler is needed. The dismantling began in September 2011, the old boiler was brought into the workshop of the Severn Valley Railway, which establishes a new boiler for the old model.
The first Argentine locomotive, La Portena from 1857, is also obtained. They should be taken on 17 October 2007 for the 150th anniversary of the maiden voyage back in operation, which can not be detected.
Sale of plans, naming rights
After the plant closure, the company drawings, plans, equipment, and has passed on to customers Kitson & Co., who built 23 locomotives, designed by Manning Wardle. This company closed in 1938. Thereafter, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorne took over the rights, the further five locomotives built after the plans of Manning Wardle. Today the plans of Manning Wardle owned by Hunslet - Barclay, which continues to offer services to the rail industry, based in Kilmarnock, Scotland, are. The intellectual property rights for the designs of the historic locomotive are held by the Hunslet Engine Company.
The brand name Manning Wardle is held by a company founded in 1999 in order to obtain the name of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway. This operation from 1898 to 1935 the most famous products of the former company, the 1 C 1 - narrow gauge tank locomotives Exe, Taw, Yeo and Lew.