Dick, Kerr & Co.

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Dick, Kerr and Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Kilmarnock, Scotland.

Having previously been known as W.B.Dick and Company the company had built all kinds of tramway equipment and rolling stock. From 1883, under its new name, it built around fifty locomotives up to 1919. The company also had faciities in Preston, where, in 1893 they acquired the railway and tramway plant activities of Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning who had been bought out by Kerr Stuart and Company. In 1919 the Kilmarnock works were sold to the Kilmarnock Engineering Company, and the company was taken over by English Electric.

See also Dick, Kerr's Ladies

[edit] Reference

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