Beyer-Peacock

Garratt locomotive for the New Zealand State Railways (1928)

Tank locomotive for Ireland , built in 1901

BR class 24 mainline diesel locomotive from Beyer-Peacock with a Sulzer diesel engine

NGG 16 No. 143 for South Africa was the last steam locomotive built by Beyer-Peacock

Beyer-Peacock was an English manufacturer of locomotives , machine tools and steel castings . The company was in 1854 from which Saxony originating Charles Beyer and Richard Peacock from  Yorkshire based and closed 1966th The Gorton Foundry facility was located in the Gorton district of Manchester . Beyer-Peacock became known worldwide primarily for the development of the Garratt articulated locomotives.

history

The founders had learned the trade at Sharp, Roberts and Company and Fenton, Murray and Jackson . They built the first locomotive for the Great Western Railway in 1855 . In 1864 the company built the successful 2'B tank locomotives for the London Underground, which were in use until 1905, when electrical operations began. From 1881 tram locomotives were also built, over 200 of which were delivered by 1910. By 1907, 5000 locomotives had been built, with 1600 destined for the home market.

In 1909 the production of Garratt locomotives began. The first was for the Emu Bay Railway in Tasmania . Beyer-Peacock was the largest manufacturer of Garratt locomotives. Of the locomotives of this type built in 1704, 1024 were from Beyer-Peacock.

In 1914 the company had 2300 employees. The factory premises had an area of ​​9 hectares. In 1932 the truck manufacturer Richard Garrett & Sons was taken over, but truck production was closed in 1939.

In 1949, the Metropolitan-Vickers-Beyer-Peacock Ltd joint venture was founded with Metropolitan-Vickers , which was to build electric and diesel locomotives in a new plant in Stockton-on-Tees . In 1958 another joint venture with Hawker Siddeley for building diesel-hydraulic locomotives, the name Beyer Peacock (Hymek) Ltd was wearing. From 1961, Beyer-Peacock began to produce electric and diesel locomotives at the headquarters and Metropolitan-Vickers-Beyer-Peacock Ltd was dissolved.

Beyer-Peacock ceased business in 1966.

source

• Beyer, Peacock and Co. In: Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. May 15, 2015, accessed March 21, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Beyer, Peacock and Company  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Early newspaper articles on Beyer-Peacock in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• James Mudd: Beyer Peacock Engines. Historical images on Flickr , Museum of Photographic Arts Collections.
• Grace's Guide: Beyer, Peacock and Co.