1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class V.: Lilleshall Co
1266. LILLESHALL COMPANY, Shiffnal, Shropshire.
An extra strong colliery or contractors' locomotive for curves and heavy gradients.
The Lilleshall Company having had great experience in the working of locomotives of different makers in their own works, submit for exhibition a tank locomotive of simple and substantial construction, proved to be most suitable for colliery and contractors' purposes.
This engine has outside cylinders, four wrought-iron wheels coupled, hardened steel-link motion, expressly arranged for keeping the boiler unusually low in the frame, steel piston rod, slide bars, copper fire box and steam pipes, brass tubes, patent brass fittings. It is also fitted with the Lilleshall Company's patent compensating buffers, which adapt themselves to take an equal, strain round sharp curves. The whole is built extra strong, to resist the wear and tear of heavy gradients, sharp curves, and the frequent inequalities of colliery roads.
The exhibitors are manufacturers of all kinds of high pressure expansive and condensing engines, sugar and other mills, heavy machinery for forges and rolling mills, chilled and grain rolls, cylinders, etc., all made from their well-known Lilleshall cold blast iron, of the best workmanship, and at moderate prices.
Some specimens of coals and argillaceous ironstones, from which Lilleshall pigs are made, may be seen in Class I.