Ruston was a industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, UK. They built narrow and standard gauge diesel locomotives, cars and steam shovels. Shown within Lincolnshire Geography Status: City Region: East Midlands Admin. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London 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    - 2005 est. ... Great Western Railway No. ... Categories: Stub | Industrial equipment ...

Early history

The original company was Proctor and Burton established in 1840, operating as millwrights and engineers. They became Ruston, Proctor and Company in 1857 when Joseph Ruston joined them, acquiring limited liability in 1899. From 1866 they built a number of four and six-coupled tank locomotives, one of which was sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1867. In 1868 they built five 0-6-0 tank engines for the Great Eastern Railway to the design of Samuel W. Johnson. Three of these were converted to crane tanks, two of which lasted until 1952, aged eighty-four. Among the company's output were sixteen for Argentina and some for T.A.Walker, the contractor building the Manchester Ship Canal. A tank locomotive (occasionally tank engine, especially in England, notably used in reference to Thomas the Tank Engine) is a steam locomotive that carries its own fuel and water on it, instead of pulling it behind it in a tender. ... 0-6-0 is also the emergency telephone number in Mexico, similar to the United Statess 9-1-1. ... The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed in 1862 as an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway; and also with several other smaller railways: Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the Newmarket, the Harwich, the East Anglian Light and the East Suffolk; among others. ... Samuel Waite Johnson (14 October 1831 — 14 January 1912) was chief mechanical engineer (CME) of the Midland Railway. ... The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ...

Ruston & Hornsby

On September 11th 1918, the company amalgamated with Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham to become Ruston and Hornsby Ltd. Hornsbys were world leaders in diesel engines at that time, having practically built one before the Diesel identity was added. The company bearing the name of Richard Hornsby (1790-1864), the agricultural engineer, was founded when Richard opened a blacksmithy in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1815. ... Location within the British Isles. ...

The Ruston-Hornsby car

After World War I they attempted to diversify and one outcome was the Ruston-Hornsby car. Two versions were made, a 15.9 hp with a Dorman 2614 cc engine and a larger 20hp model with 3308 cc engine of their own manufacture. The cars were expensive and never reached the hoped for production volumes. About 1500 were made between 1919 and 1924.

Diesels and Gas Turbines

Ruston & Hornsby was a major producer of small and medium diesel engines for land and marine applications. It began to build diesel locomotives in 1931 (and continued up until 1967). It was a pioneer and major developer in the industrial application of small 9 up to 10000kW) heavy duty gas turbines from the 1950s onwards. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The company closed its Grantham factory in 1963. The company progressively became part of the General Electric Company of UK (not to be confused with GE in the USA) in 1967, of GEC-Alsthom in 1989, of Alstom in 1998 and latterly of Siemens in 2003. Its gas turbines are widely used around the world. The General Electric Company plc or GEC was a major UK company involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications and engineering. ... GE redirects here. ... Alstom (formerly GEC-Alsthom) (Euronext: ALO) is a large French company whose businesses are power generation and manufacturing trains (e. ...

Technically, Ruston & Hornsby Ltd existed at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside until 2002, which was known as Ruston Diesels. It was taken over by MAN B&W Diesel AG on June 12th 2000. Vulcan Foundry was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. ...

Preserved Locomotives

Heritage railways with Ruston locomotives include : A scene on a heritage railway. ...

• Corris Railway
• Moseley Railway Trust
• Pleasant Point Museum and Railway
• Talyllyn Railway

Maespoeth Junction locomotive shed in the early 1980s, members of the Corris Railway Society at work restoring the line The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge 23 (686mm) preserved railway line along the Dulas Valley on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and Montgomeryshire (now Powys... The Moseley Railway Trust has its base in south Manchester. ... The Pleasant Point Museum and Railway is a heritage railway located in the small country town of Pleasant Point in southern Canterbury, New Zealand, inland from Timaru. ... Locomotive no. ...

Reference

• Lowe, J.W., (1989) British Steam Locomotive Builders, Guild Publishing

External links

• Ruston & Hornsby steam engines
• History of the diesel engines and locomotives
• Ray Hooley's history of Ruston & Hornsby
• Vulcan Works at Newton-le-Willows
• Http://newton-le-willows.com : Timeline of diesel engine manufacture