Walker Brothers (Wigan)

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1880.

[[Image:|thumb| 1910. Ventilating fan. Exhibit at [Trencherfield Mill]] ]]

1913.

1913.

Walker Brothers of Pagefield Ironworks, Wigan were mining engineers and also produced Pagefield commercial vehicles.

• 1866 Company founded. See J. Scarisbrick Walker and Brothers

• 1902 Fan engine for Dean and Chapter Colliery at Ferryhill.

• 1904 Private company.

• 1908 Fan engine for Crumlin Navigation Colliery.

• 1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Petrol Motors see the 1917 Red Book under the Pagefield name.

• 1919 - 1920 A few Pagefields buses were made on a lorry chassis.

• 1921 One of these was bodied as a bus in Britain.

• 1923 Ventilating fan engine for The Severn Tunnel.

• 1927 A low frame PSV chassis was produced. It was very ahead of its time having a six-cylinder Dorman engine, four wheel internally-expanding drum brakes.

• The whole engine assembly could be detached and wheeled out; this was an idea later brought about by Morris-Commercial.

• Users of Pagefields were Grant's Saloon Services and Wigan Corporation who were local to the company.

• The company were known for making the most successful battery-electric trucks.

• Bus bought by Liverpool Corporation with a 25 passenger body.

• 1961 Engineers and makers of mining and paper making machinery.

See Also

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Sources of Information

• Ian Allan - British Buses Since 1900 - Aldridge and Morris
• The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6