Marshall, Sons & Co.

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Preserved Marshall 6nhp single-cylinder portable engine, no. 87866, built 1936. This design has a 'colonial' boiler and a long firebox for burning logs.

Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British machinery manufacturer. Their company was at the Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

[edit] History

Marshall's produced large numbers of steam traction engines, steam rollers, portable engines and agricultural machinery of all types.

Later production included diesel tractors such as the Field Marshall Track Marshall and former Leyland wheeled tractors.

Marshall, Sons & Co. Ltd. merged with John Fowler & Co., (Leeds) Ltd in 1947 to form Marshall-Fowler Ltd. There is now a supermarket standing on (part of) the former Britannia Iron Works site.

Marshall, Sons and Co. built the boiler for the Fairbarn steam crane which stands on the dockside in Bristol. The maker's plate reads "Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd., Engineers, Gainsboro, England, No.92766".

[edit] Preserved examples

What is thought to be the oldest surviving Marshall product, works no. 415, a 2.5nhp portable engine from 1866, may be seen at the Turon Technology Museum (Museum of Power), in New South Wales. This engine is also the oldest documented portable engine in Australia.^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Marshall Britannia portable steam engine, 1914 – at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

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