Grant, Ritchie and Co

June 1888. Shears for cutting 30" x 9" steel slabs at Clyde Bridge Steel Works, Rutherglen.

1888. Exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Grant, Ritchie and Co of Townholme Engine Works, Kilmarnock.

The firm was formerly Grant Brothers.

Thomas Maxwell Grant entered into partnership, and started the Townholm Engine Works, Kilmarnock under the style of Grant, Ritchie and Co

1879-1920 Built 45 railway locomotives.

1886 description and drawings of Moore's hydraulic pumps, as erected in one of the shale mines of the Broxburn Oil Co, and at a plant at the Pirnie Colliery of the Fife Coal Co.

1896 Description and drawing of steam-driven hot bloom guillotine shears for Mossend Iron and Steel Works.

1900 Supplied horizontal twin-cylinder, Cornish and drop-valve winding engine for Woodhorn Colliery. Listed as Grant and Ritchie.

1905 Grant, Ritchie and Company Limited was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £25,000, to acquire certain engineers', boilermakers', and brassfounders' businesses.

1922 Colliery winding, hauling and pumping machinery, locomotive boilers, steelworks plant and general engineering.

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Sources of Information

• National Records of Scotland BT2/5093
• British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
• The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978/9. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
• Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10