Swinburne, Smith and Company
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Swinburne, Smith and Company was a railroad locomotive manufacturing company of the mid-19th century. The company was founded in 1845, in Paterson, New Jersey, by a partnership between William Swinburne and Samuel Smith. William Swinburne had been a pattern maker for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor who worked his way up to become shop foreman.
Swinburne remained in business for only a decade, failing with the Panic of 1857. Afterwards, the firm reorganized, with James Jackson joining the partnership, and became the New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Works, continuing to produce locomotives until 1867, when it consolidated with the Grant Locomotive Works. Among the engines produced by the firm is Great Northern's William Crooks, which is the sole surviving engine built by the firm.
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