Grant, Ritchie and Co
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.
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.[1]
1922 Colliery winding, hauling and pumping machinery, locomotive boilers, steelworks plant and general engineering.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Scotsman 17 June 1905
- 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