Ruston, Proctor and Company was established in Lincoln, England in 1857, and were manufacturers of steam tractors and engines. They later became Rustons...
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operating as millwrights and engineers. It became Ruston, Proctor and Company in 1857 when Joseph Ruston joined them, acquiring limited liability status...
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Yorkshire, England Ruston Parva, East Riding of Yorkshire, England Ruston (engine builder) (or Ruston, Proctor and Company), railway locomotive and industrial...
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firm Ruston (engine builder) - Former stationary engine and locomotive manufacturer Ruston, Proctor and Company - Former steam engine builder Ruston-Bucyrus...
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compact combined steam engine and boiler below decks that drove the winch from below via a shaft. Ruston, Proctor and Company at the UK 1883 Fisheries Exhibition...
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firm of Ruston, Proctor and Company, agricultural implement makers and engineers. The company grew in size until it employed some 2000 people and in his...
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Marshall, Sons & Co. (redirect from Marshall, Sons & Company)
refurbished and is currently in storage with Guernsey museum. Competitors in the agricultural machinery market: Ruston & Hornsby Ruston, Proctor and Company Clayton...
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List of former tractor manufacturers (category Lists of defunct companies)
Ruston (England, UK) Ruslan (Argentina) Russell & Company (Steam Tractor) - American(USA) Ruston & Hornsby (England, UK) Ruston, Proctor and Company (England...
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to Ruston, Proctor and Company, of Lincoln, he took a post with Hopkins, Gilkes & Company. In 1880, he joined the staff of the New River Company, which...
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Sopwith Snipe (section Design and development)
several companies including Sopwith, Boulton & Paul Ltd, Coventry Ordnance Works, D. Napier & Son, Nieuport and Ruston, Proctor and Company. Two aircraft...
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Life (steam engines)". (includes photo of Ruston Proctor no 306). Retrieved 2008-01-03. "Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum - Vintage Excavator Trust"...
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Richard Hornsby & Sons (category Ruston (engine builder))
Lincoln. History of the internal combustion engine Ruston (engine builder) Ruston, Proctor and Company Marshall, Sons & Co. Clayton & Shuttleworth "A Triumph...
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relationship with Joseph Ruston who was the managing director of Ruston, Proctor and Company. The Goddards were are likely to be the architects of his house...
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Davington Light Railway (redirect from Cotton Powder Company)
by the Vale of Rheidol Railway and stored at Aberystwyth, where it is shown as ex-Cotton Powder Company Ruston Proctor 4wPM, works no 51168 of 1916; it...
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British heavy engine manufacturers Ruston, Proctor and Company and Richard Hornsby & Sons merged to become Ruston & Hornsby. Born: Desmond J. Scott, New...
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narrow gauge rolling stock in 1963, when he purchased a metre gauge Ruston Proctor locomotive from a china clay mine in St Austell. He continued to purchase...
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John Hinchley (section Early life and education)
Grantham, and studied at Lincoln Grammar School. From 1887 to 1890 he served an engineering apprenticeship at Ruston, Proctor and Company while attending...
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17.5 L (1,066.5 cu in). 1,750 produced by Gwynnes Limited and 600 produced by Ruston Proctor. Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 Avro 504 Avro 531 Bristol M.1...
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Stratford Works (category Former buildings and structures in the London Borough of Newham)
1908. It was unusual for a main line railway company to build its own cranes and most British companies bought their cranes from either Cowans (Carlisle)...
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Sheldon & Company of Carlisle (rail cranes) Craven Brothers William Fairbairn & Sons of Manchester Ransomes & Rapier of Ipswich Ruston Proctor of Lincoln...
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and owned by Ruby's Inn and the Syrett family, owners of Ruby's Inn Proctor, Vermont, once owned by the Vermont Marble Company; the town of Proctor was...
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Sims and Head (Ipswich) exhibited agricultural machinery, Ruston, Proctor and Company a road engine, Bailey and Company fire pumps and pyrometers and Barrow...
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Clerget-Blin (category Manufacturing companies established in 1913)
were also built in Britain by companies such as Gwynnes Limited, Ruston Proctor, and Gordon Watney, to increase production during World War I. Wikimedia...
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CGR 0-4-0ST 1881 Coffee Pot (redirect from Teague and Company no. 3)
in 1881 by Ruston, Proctor and Company with works numbers 7272 and 7273. They were supplied through agents Sinclaire, Hamilton and Company in 1881, along...
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President (narrowboat) (category Ships and vessels of the National Historic Fleet)
the Ruston, Proctor and Company steam boiler and engine were replaced by a 15 hp Bolinder crude oil engine. Ernest Thomas, a director of FMC, and a Walsall-based...
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themselves. These included Fairey, Clayton and Shuttleworth, William Beardmore and Company and Ruston Proctor. Towards the end of the war, Sopwith took...
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Fellows Morton & Clayton (redirect from Fellows Morton and Clayton)
century, the largest and best-known canal transportation company in England. The company was in existence from 1889 to 1947. The company started in 1837 when...
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also designed the Royal Aircraft Factory's "Aerial Target" (built by Ruston Proctor), an anti-Zeppelin pilotless aircraft designed to use A M Low's radio...
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where it continued to work. The company Aveling and Porter was the first to successfully sell the product commercially and subsequently became the largest...
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British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I (category Science and technology during World War I)
Factory designed an AT powered by an ABC Gnat engine which was built by Ruston Proctor of Lincoln in 1916/1917. With Harry Hawker, Sopwith at Kingston upon...
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