Merryweather & Sons

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Merryweather & Sons of Lambeth, later Greenwich, London, were builders of steam fire engines and steam tram engines.

The founder was Moses Merryweather (1791-1872) of Clapham, who was joined by Richard Moses (1839-1877). They took Edward Field's design of a vertical boiler and successfully applied it for use in their steam fire engine, thus improving water pressure and making easier to use once steam had been got up. They also produced steam powered trams when tram lines were first introduced into Europe.

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[edit] Tram engine production

Between 1875 and 1892 the factory produced about 174 steam tram engines, of which 41 were used in Britain, 46 in Paris, 6 in Kassel, Germany, 15 to Barcelona, 15 in the Netherlands, 11 in New Zealand and 15 in Rangoon.

[edit] Preserved tram engine

In the Dutch Railway Museum at Utrecht is tram engine RSTM 2, built in 1881 (or 5?, built in 1882?)

[edit] Sources

  • History of the Steam Tram by H. A. Whitcombe, published by the Oakwood Press in 1961
  • A History of the British Steam Tram, Volume 1, by David Gladwin, Published at Sutherland in 2004: pages 78 - 86
  • Tramway Lokomotiven by Walter Hefti, published by Birkhauser Verlag in 1980: pages 113 -116

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