Kerr Stuart

Kerr Stuart

Kerr Stuart & Co Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England.

History

It was founded in 1881 by James Kerr as James Kerr & Co., and became Kerr, Stuart & Co from 1883 when John Stuart was taken on as a partner. The business started in Glasgow, Scotland, but during this time they were only acting as agents ordering locomotives from established manufacturers, among them Falcon, John Fowler & Co. and Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning. They bought the last-named company in 1892 and moved into the California Works in Stoke to begin building all their own locomotives. Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning had also been building railway and tramway plant. This side of their business was sold to Dick, Kerr and Co. in Preston.

Kerr Stuart Standard Designs

Kerr Stuart were known for producing a number of standard designs with many engines being built for stock and sold 'off the shelf' to customers. The names of these locomotive types were often derived from the purchaser of the first of that type or from the name it was given.

The Kerr Stuart designs are typified by having a single trailing truck (allowing a large firebox to be placed behind the driving wheels) and/or having a saddle tank. Several designs of side tank locomotive were produced that shared a chassis and boiler with a saddle tank design and it is not unknown for a standard chassis from one design to used with a different design's standard boiler to produce a locomotive to suit a customers special requirements.

tandard gauge designs

References

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* L.T.C. Rolt, "A Hunslet Hundred", David & Charles, 1964, (Kerr Stuart & Company - pages 86-101).

External links

* [http://ukhrail.uel.ac.uk/cgi-bin/rlylocos?NO=&NA=&CL=&CO=ANY&BL=kerr+stuart&WN=&LO= Preserved locomotive database]

* [http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/5+6/KS_Wren.htm Industrial Railway Record - Kerr Stuart "Wren" class]


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