John Fowler & Co.
John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment. Fowler also produced the Track Marshall tractor which was a tracked version of the Field Marshall. British Railways Engineering Department locomotives ED1 to ED7 were built by Fowler.
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[edit] History
- Main article: John Fowler (agricultural engineer)
John Fowler was an agricultural engineer and inventor who was born in Wiltshire in 1826. He worked on the mechanisation of agriculture and was based in Leeds. He is credited with the invention of steam-driven ploughing engines. He died 4 December 1864, following a hunting accident. After his death, John Fowler & Co., was then continued by Robert Fowler and Robert Eddison. In 1886 the limited company of John Fowler & Co., (Leeds) Ltd., was formed, merging with Marshall, Sons & Co., Ltd., of Gainsborough in 1947 to form Marshall-Fowler Ltd. During the Second World War, the Hunslet factory also produced Matilda tanks for the Army. Production finally ceased in early 1974. [1]
[edit] Preservation
[edit] Railway locomotives
Some locations of preserved Fowler railway locomotives include:
- Australia
- Bennett Brook Railway, a tourist railway in Perth, Western Australia
- Leeds Fowler 11277: restored in Bundaberg, Australia
- Leeds Fowler, 0-6-0T, "Faugh-a Ballagh", preserved at Port Douglas, Australia.[2]
- Brazil
- Railway Museum in Jundiaí, SP (Brazil). Builder plates #1531 from 1870, she's a 4-4-0 for 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) gauge. Built for Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro where she spent all of her active life and as CP's first locomotive she was numbered #1.
- New Zealand
- Tokomaru Steam Museum, Tokomaru, New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Changa Manga Forest Railway, Pakistan [3]
- United Kingdom
- Amberley Museum Railway
- Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway
- East Kent Railway (heritage)
- Middleton Railway – two Fowler locomotives
- Phyllis Rampton Trust
- Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway
[edit] Traction engines
- The Iron Maiden a Fowler & Co. -built Showman's engine which was featured in the film The Iron Maiden is exhibited as part of the Scarborough Fair Collection of Fairground organs and machinery at events such as the Great Dorset Steam Fair.
[edit] References
- ^ * Introduction to the records of the company, held at Reading University.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Changa Manga Forest Railway article at 'All Things Pakistan' - accessed 31-03-2008
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- Fowler traction engines
- Fowler diesel locomotive (model)
- Fowler Traction Engine list
- Leeds Fowler 11277 preserved in Bundaberg Australia
- Video clip of Leeds Fowler 11277 preserved in Bundaberg Australia
- The records of the company, to 1974, are held at Reading University - Museum of English Rural Life - John Fowler and Co (Leeds) Ltd (TR FOW/AC - TR FOW/AD)
- ODNB article by Jonathan Brown, ‘Fowler, John (1826–1864)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 29 June 2008
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