Plymouth Locomotive Works

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Advert for gasoline locomotives, 1926
Narrow gauge locomotive in France
Plymouth Locomotive at the Linden Depot Museum, Indiana

Plymouth Locomotive Works was an American locomotive manufacturer. Its internal combustion engine locomotives, with gauges ranging from 457 mm (18 inches ) to 1676 mm (66 inches), were built in Plymouth , Ohio .

history

Plymouth locomotives have been manufactured by the JD Fate Company since 1910, which was incorporated into Fate-Root-Heath in 1919. A patent filed by JD Fate in 1917 shows a continuously adjustable friction clutch that was initially an essential part of his locomotives. A patent filed by Fate-Root-Heath in 1925 shows an ordinary four-speed transmission with reverse gear.

In the beginning the locomotives were mostly equipped with Chrysler gasoline engines until the first diesel locomotives were built in 1927. In 1937 a prototype of a butane and a propane gas locomotive was built.

Plymouth developed into a very well-known manufacturer of small, industrially used locomotives, mostly weighing less than 25 t. A total of 7,500 locomotives were produced, of which around 1,700 are still in use, some of which are more than 50 years old.

The company was renamed Plymouth Locomotive Works in the late 1950s and Plymouth Industries in the late 1970s . The company was bought by Ohio Locomotive Crane in 1997 and production relocated to Bucyrus , Ohio in 1999 . Production has since stopped and the rights to the spare parts business have been sold to Williams Distribution.

Web links

Commons : Plymouth Locomotives  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ North East Rails: Plymouth Industrial Locomotives, Part 1
  2. ↑ Patent US1283665 : Locomotive. Filed December 12, 1917 , published November 5, 1918 , applicant: JD Fate Company, inventor: Floyd B. Carter. ‌
  3. ↑ Chas. A. Trask, Tractor Friction Transmissions, Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Volume II, No. 6 (June 1918). Pp. 440-445.
  4. ↑ Patent US1660475 : Drive for industrial locomotives. Filed February 25, 1925 , published February 28, 1928 , applicant: Fate Root Heath Company, inventor: Floyd B. Carter. ‌
  5. ^ Plymouth Locomotives