Belhaven

The Company S. Ivory Ltd was established in New Zealand in 1902 by Margaret Ivory, an English women using Horse & Cart. In 1910 she imported into N.Z. a Belhaven Motor Vehicle which was the first motorized trucking vehicle in the country. It was chain driven with Solid tyres.

1917.

of Belhaven Works, Wishaw.

Belhaven built steam and petrol-engined vehicles.

1859 Company established by Robert Morton and traded as Robert Morton and Sons, later re-registered as Belhaven Engineering and Motors

1912 Belhaven Engineering and Motors was purchased by Belhaven Limited which had been formed by Major R. R. Mellor and Thomas Morton Gray Morton.

1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Steam Motor Wagons, Tractors and Ploughs etc. see the 1917 Red Book

1914 Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, Manufacturers of Commercial Motor Vehicles, Steam and Petrol. Specialities: Design and Manufacture of Bakery and Confectionery Plant, Coal Cutting Plant, Steam and Water Turbines, Creosoting Plant. Employees 200 to 250.

The Belhaven steam bus ran between Glasgow and Eagleshaw.

The first two buses in The Fleet of Walter Alexandar were Belhavens.

Production ceased in 1924.

See Also

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Sources of Information

• Ian Allan - British Buses Since 1900 - Aldridge and Morris