Edward W. Chapman
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
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineers and Mechanics Encyclopedia 1839: Railways: William and E. W. Chapman
- ↑ 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