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Edward W. Chapman

From Graces Guide

1812 William Chapman of Durham and his brother Edward W. Chapman of Wallsend, Northumberland, took out a patent for "a method or methods of facilitating the means, and reducing the expense, of carriage on railways and other roads;" [1] [2] The engine may have been built by the Butterley Co

1814 Second locomotive was an eight-wheeled engine and built by Phineas Crowther

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia 1839: Railways: William and E. W. Chapman
  2. ↑ Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive by Robert Young. Published 1923.
  • A Treatise upon Elemental Locomotion by Alexander Gordon. 1836.
  • British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
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