Walker Brothers (Wigan)
From Graces Guide
Walker Brothers of Pagefield Ironworks, Wigan were mining engineers and also produced Pagefield commercial vehicles.
- 1866 Company founded. See J. Scarisbrick Walker and Brothers
- 1890s: Engines at Whitburn Colliery, near Sunderland, were photographed by George Watkins: One was a cross compound fan engine made by Walker Bros, and the other was a winding engine believed to be by Walker Bros. Walker’s fitted new HP cylinders when higher pressure boilers were installed. [1]
- 1898 Compound ventilating engine for Garswood Hall Collieries (see illustration)[2]
- 1902 Fan engine for Dean and Chapter Colliery at Ferryhill. George Watkins photographed this vertical compound engine in 1953 [3]
- 1904 Private company.
- 1908 VertFan 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. [4]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 2' by George Watkins: Landmark Publishing Ltd.
- ↑ ‘The Engineer’ December ? 1898
- ↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 2' by George Watkins: Landmark Publishing Ltd.
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- 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