Beyer, Peacock and Company is a railway Locomotive manufacturing company that has its factory in Gorton, Manchester. The founders of Beyer, Peacock and Company are Charles Frederick Beyer, Henry Robertson and Richard Peacock.
Locomotives Manufactured by Beyer, Peacock and Company
The Beyer, Peacock and Company manufactured nearly 8000 steam locomotives of different designs. The company also manufactures tender engines, garratt engines, combined tram engine and coach, crane tanks, tank engines, shop engines, Meyer-type engines, tramway engines, experimental ljungstrom turbine condensing locomotive, steam rail coaches and rack engines.
The company has produced many locomotives with various designs. Some of the important designs include the Beyer-Garratt locomotives that were used in Africa and Australia. The metropolitan and district lines of London underground used the 4-4-0 tank locomotives from 1864 till the electrification in 1905. Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester also manufactured 2-4-0 tank locomotives for 3 ft 6 inch lines in Norway. The company also manufactured the famous Manx Peacock design. TGR K Class was the first Garratt locomotive manufactured for the
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Tasmanian Government Railways. Along with steam locomotives, the company also manufactured and supplied 101 British Rail Class 35 diesel hydraulic locomotives, 10 British Rail Class 82 and 25KV AC electric locomotives to a Metropolitan Vickers.
The company manufactured locomotives with different specifications like the wheel arrangement differing between 2-2-2, 0-4-2, 2-4-0 and 0-6-0; the gauge varied from 4'-8½", 5'-6", 5'-3", 5'-53/4", 5’-0”, 5'-6"3'-6" depending upon the requirement of the client.
Some of the clients of Beyer, Peacock and Company are A.L. Elder & Company, Assam-Bengal, India, Belfast & Northern Counties, A.R. Amos, Sydney, Australia, Belfast & County Down, Berlin & Potsdam, Germany, Ballymena & Lame, Anglo Persian Oil Company, Buenos Ayres & Rosario, Denaby Main Colliery, Argentina, City & South London, Buenos Ayres Western, Argentina, Cape Government, South Africa, Dublin & Drogheda, Briton Ferry Steel Company, Great Northern Railway Ireland, Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited, Eastern Bengal, Dutch State, Fishburn & Morton, Australia, Buenos Ayres & Rosario, Argentina, Broken Hill S. Silver Mining Company, Australia and any more.
The Beyer, Peacock and Company is a company that has manufactured innumerable railway locomotive for the clients located all over the world.
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