Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Leeds, England. It has been suggested that this article be split into articles entitled steam and water vapor, accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Great Western Railway No. ... Leeds is a major city in West Yorkshire, England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

Precursor companies

The city of Leeds in England was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam loocomotive, The Salamanca in Leeds in 1812. By 1856, a number of manufacturers had sprung up in the town, perhaps the most notable being the firm of E.B.Wilson and Company in Pearson Street. Leeds is a major city in West Yorkshire, England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Matthew Murray. ... The Salamanca The Salamanca was the first commercially successful steam locomotive built in 1812 by Matthew Murray for the Middleton Railway in Leeds. ... E.B.Wilson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company at the Railway Foundry in Leeds, England. ...

Manning Wardle

E.B.Wilson and Company foundered in 1858. The company’s designs were purchased by Manning Wardle & Company, who located their Boyne Engine Works (established in 1840) in Jack Lane in the Hunslet district of the city. Within the next few years, two other companies, the Hunslet Engine Company and Hudswell, Clarke & Company also opened premises in Jack Lane. There was a good deal of staff movement between the three firms, leading to similar designs leaving all three works. Whilst Hudswell Clarke and Hunslet built a wide variety of locomotive types, Manning, Wardle concentrated on specialised locomotives for contractor’s use, building up a range of locomotives suitable for all types of contracting work. E.B.Wilson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company at the Railway Foundry in Leeds, England. ... Hunslet is a working class area of inner-city south Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ... Irish Mail is typical of many small engines builf for use in quarries Much rebuilt Hunslet Blanche is always popular on the Ffestiniog Railway Hunslet build several hundred 0-6-0STs for the War Department and National Coal Board A typical Hunslet diesel mechanical shunter from the 1950s A typical... A typical Hudswell Clarke Diesel Locomotive from the 1950s Hudswell Clarke was an engineering and locomotive building company in Leeds, founded in 1860. ...

Many Manning Wardle locomotives - of standard gauge and various narrow gauges - were exported to Europe, Africa, the Indian sub-continent, Australasia and South America. As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ... Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) with track spaced at less than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1. ...

Decline and closure

The company employed traditional construction throughout its existence, and failed to take advantage of the more efficient mass production techniques becoming available. As a result, Manning Wardle became more uncompetitive. The company ceased trading in 1927, after producing more than 2,000 steam locomotives.

The last complete locomotive was No. 2047 (standard gauge 0-6-0ST) delivered to Rugby Cement Works in August 1926. This locomotive still survives at Kidderminster Railway Museum on static display.

Acquisition

Following closure in 1926, the company's drawings, designs, equipment and customers were acquired by Kitsons who made twenty three locos of Manning Wardle designs until they also closed in 1938. The patterns were passed to Robert Stephenson and Hawthorne who built a further five locos of Manning Wardle design. Today the Manning Wardle designs are owned by the Hunslet-Barclay, who are still a provider of services to the rail industry, based in Kilmarnock, Scotland. The intellectual property rights for historic locomotive designs are held by the Hunslet Engine Company. Kitson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer from Leeds. ... Map of Kilmarnock town centre in 1819 Kilmarnock (Cill Mheàrnaig in Scottish Gaelic, and Killie locally) is a large burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a population of about 60,000. ... Motto: (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity(English) Wha daur meddle wi me? (Scots)[1] Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots[2] Government  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... Irish Mail is typical of many small engines builf for use in quarries Much rebuilt Hunslet Blanche is always popular on the Ffestiniog Railway Hunslet build several hundred 0-6-0STs for the War Department and National Coal Board A typical Hunslet diesel mechanical shunter from the 1950s A typical...

The trademark name Manning Wardle is owned by a company formed in 1999 to preserve the name for the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, which from 1898 to 1935 operated what have become some of the company's most famous products, narrow gauge 2-6-2 Tank engines: Exe, Taw, Yeo and later Lew. The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway (L&B) was a narrow-gauge railway running through the rugged and picturesque countryside of Exmoor in North Devon, England. ... A Pairie type built for the Burlington by Baldwin. ... Manning Wardle 2-6-2T built 1898 for Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Scrapped 1935 Categories: ... Manning Wardle 2-6-2T built 1898 for Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Scrapped 1935 Categories: ... Manning Wardle 2-6-2T built 1898 for Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Scrapped 1935 Categories: ... Manning Wardle 2-6-2T built in 1925 for the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway. ...

External links

• Hunslet-Barclay
• Hunslet Engine Co