Steam carriage from Verbiest". History of the Automobile: origin to 1900. Hergé. Setright, LJK (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car. Granta...
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The steam rail motors (SRM) were self-propelled carriages operated by the Great Western Railway in England and Wales from 1903 to 1935. They incorporated...
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List of defunct automobile manufacturers of the United States (redirect from Beisel Motorette Company)
Avanti Motor Co. (1963–2007) Avery Company (1891–1928) Tractor, truck and car manufacturer Babcock, H.H. Company (1909–1913) Babcock Electric Carriage Co...
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List of locomotive builders (redirect from Phoenix Engine Company)
Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Motor Rail Muir-Hill Nasmyth, Gaskell & Company Neilson & Company – became Neilson Reid & Company in 1898; to North...
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The Yeovil–Taunton line was a railway line in England, built by the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) to connect its main line with the market town of...
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vehicles were built by a number of independent companies, but in 1844 the railway started to build carriages at Swindon Works, which eventually provided...
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Beamish Museum transport collection (section Newcastle and Gosforth Tramways and Carriage Company 49)
4-wheel Maley and Taunton hornless type 588 truck with rubber and leaf spring suspension, powered by two Metrovick 101 DR3 65 hp motors with a pair of Crompton-West...
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Bristol–Exeter line (redirect from Bristol to Taunton Line)
Bristol to Bridgwater was opened on 14 June 1841 and it was completed to Taunton on 1 July 1842. It was initially operated by the Great Western Railway...
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Sons & Co. Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd Beyer, Peacock & Company Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Black, Hawthorn & Co Bombardier...
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Bristol Tramways Company merged with the Bristol Cab Company to form the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company. In 1887, the company began a horse-bus...
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Company 1907. 15-18 United Electric Car Company 1909 19-22 English Electric 1920 23(1) Formerly from Taunton then Leamington tramways, it was bought in...
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Weymann Fabric Bodies (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France)
patented design system for fuselages for aircraft and superlight coachwork for motor vehicles. The system used a patent-jointed wood frame covered in fabric...
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The Grand Western Canal ran between Taunton in Somerset and Tiverton in Devon in the United Kingdom. The canal had its origins in various plans, going...
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British Rail Class 117 (category Pressed Steel Company multiple units)
pairs of spare motor coaches. When first introduced in 1960, these three-car units were all based with the similar Class 121 single carriage (railcar) units...
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two outer driving motors, and an intermediate motor. The technical description of the formation is DMCL-MS-DMSL. Individual carriages are numbered as follows:...
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GWR Super Saloons (section Pullman carriages)
The Great Western Railway Super Saloons were eight railway carriages developed to service the boat train traffic from London to Plymouth. Built to the...
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InterCity (British Rail) (section InterCity Company)
diesel-powered) hauling Mark 2 coaches and a modified Class 414 driving motor carriage were introduced in 1984 in push-pull mode. When InterCity took over...
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British Rail Mark 3 (section Entertainment carriages)
236 Mark 3 SLEP sleeper carriages. Because of cost overruns partly caused by more stringent regulations in the wake of the Taunton sleeping car fire the...
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named after the destinations of trains that passed nearby: Bristol, Bath, Taunton, London, Oxford and Reading among them. Built in the nearby open area,...
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Maley & Taunton was a tram and tramway engineering company. It was situated in Wednesbury in Staffordshire, England. The principals, Alfred Walter Maley...
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Great Western Railway (redirect from Birmingham & Oxford Railway Company)
pass the Railway Regulation Act 1844, requiring railway companies to provide better carriages for passengers. The next section, from Reading to Steventon...
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Bowl with Ernie Conover: Getting Great Results the First Time Around, Taunton, p. 16, ISBN 978-1-56158-293-8 Smith, Merritt Roe (2015). Harpers Ferry...
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self-propelled steam carriage. In later use the carriage portion was removed and it was used as a small shunting locomotive. The steam carriage was built to the...
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motors, with an additional intermediate motor in the 3-car units. The technical description of the formation is DMOSL+MOS+DMOS. Individual carriages are...
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Oak Common. The depot codes were OC for the diesel depot and OO for the carriage shed. In steam days the shed code was 81A. The depot was formerly the main...
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they sold off the carriage and wagon works to the Pullman Company Ltd. Today, both the site of the railway depot and the carriage and wagon works have...
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Electric Power Co. Ltd, which also owned the Manx Electric Railway. The company went into liquidation in 1900 as a consequence of a banking collapse. The...
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Swansea and Mumbles Railway (category Early Welsh railway companies)
resemblance to conventional railway carriages, employing open-top, "toast-rack" and "knifeboard" seating, and being built by companies more commonly associated with...
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B&ER route at Taunton and thus allowed the GWR to offer a shorter route from London to Taunton and the South West from 1906. By now motor bus services...
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round trip to Bath, he invested £10,000 in steam carriages. Sir Charles Dance bought three carriages for trips between Cheltenham and Gloucester, but...
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