Manning Wardle

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The Sharpthorne , built by Manning Wardle in 1882 in Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway

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 locomotive construction: Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive, the Salamanca, in Holbeck, Leeds, in 1812 . After 1856 a number of locomotive workshops sprang up in the town, including EB Wilson and Company on Pearson Street, Hunslet.

Manning Wardle

Ayresome No. 12 from Manning Wardle & Co. Ltd

EB Wilson and Company was founded in 1858. Their designs were purchased by Manning, Wardle and Co. , which had their machine shop founded in 1840 on Jack Lane in the city's Hunslet district. Over the next several years, two other companies opened on Jack Lane, the Hunslet Engine Company and the Hudswell, Clarke & Company . The staff often switched between the three companies, resulting in similar designs for the products of all three companies. While Hudswell Clarke and Hunslet Engine Company built a variety of locomotive types, Manning Wardle focused on locomotives ordered by contractors for special uses, as well as all types of contract work.

Many Manning Wardle locomotives - in standard gauge , and various narrow gauge - gauges - were to Europe , Africa , the Middle East as the Class M for Palestine Railways , according to India , Australia and New Zealand ( NZR class Wh) and South America delivered.

Decline and closure

During its existence, the company used traditional construction methods. Failure to take advantage of efficient mass production. As a result, Manning Wardle was no longer competitive. The company ceased operations in 1927 after producing more than 2,000 steam locomotives.

The last complete locomotive was No. 2047, a C-coupled standard gauge engine for the Rugby Cement Works in August 1926. This locomotive was kept in the Kidderminster Railway Museum and transferred to Bridgnorth . There the locomotive was dismantled. It is to be made operational, for which a new boiler is necessary. The dismantling began in September 2011, the old boiler was brought to the workshop of the Severn Valley Railway , which produces a new boiler based on the old model.

The first Argentinian locomotive, La Portena from 1857, is also preserved. It should be put back into operation on October 17th, 2007 on the 150th anniversary of the maiden voyage, which cannot be proven.

Sale of the plans, naming rights

After the company closed, the company passed drawings, plans, equipment and customers on to Kitson & Co. , who built 23 locomotives based on Manning Wardle's plans. This company closed in 1938. Then Robert Stephenson and Hawthorne took over the rights, which built another five locomotives according to the plans of Manning Wardle. Today Manning Wardle's plans are owned by Hunslet-Barclay , which continues to provide services to the rail industry based in Kilmarnock , Scotland . The intellectual property rights to the historic locomotive designs are held by the Hunslet Engine Company .

The brand name Manning Wardle is held by a company founded in 1999 to get the name for the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway . From 1898 to 1935 it operated the most famous products of the former company, the 1 C 1 narrow-gauge tender locomotives Exe , Taw , Yeo and Lew .

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