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Marshall, Sons and Co

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1880.
1881. At the Smithfield Show.
1881.
January 1888.
June 1888.
1889.
1889.
1889.
1891.
1892. Vertical Engine and Boiler.
1892. Single-Cylinder Portable Engine.
1892. Improved Traction Engine.
Although this steam engine at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse has a brass plate proclaiming Thomas Bradford and Co, it was made by Marshall
1895. Portable and traction engines for the Smithfield Club Show.
1895.
c1900. Marshall boiler on route to a Ceylon Tea factory.
1900. Exhibit at the Hull Street Life Museum.
c1900.
1904. Pumping engine at Ravensfleet.
January 1906.
1907.
1911.
1919. Road Scarifier.
1921.
November 1923
1919.
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1920.
1924. Road roller.
1925. 9 ton universal road roller.
1925.
Exhibit at World of Country Life
Saw bench.
Exhibit at Armley Mill Museum.
Marshall barring engine on Hathorn, Davey pumping engine at Mill Meece Pumping Station
Saw Bench.
No 86085. Exhibit at Amberley Working Museum.
No 86085. (Detail). Exhibit at Amberley Working Museum.
Exhibit at the Forncett Industrial Steam Museum.
1952. Marshall boiler.
No. 93953. Exhibit at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life.
No. 93953 (detail). Exhibit at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life.
Track-Marshall.
Track-Marshall.


of Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, Lincs.

The company was a British machinery and Traction Engine manufacturer. Marshall's produced large numbers of steam traction engines, steam rollers and agricultural machinery of all types. Later production included diesel tractors such as the Field Marshall and Track Marshall.

General

1842 William Marshall originally an agent for William Fairbairn and Sons branched out on his own and purchased the defunct engineering works of William Garland and Son at Back Street Foundry in Gainsborough.

1848 Company established.

1849 Renamed as Britannia Ironworks and commenced production of road steam engines.

1857 His son James Marshall become a partner in the company.

1861 His other son Henry Dickenson Marshall became a partner in the business.

1861 William Marshall died.

1861 Employing 21 men and 10 boys. [1]

1862 Incorporated as a Limited Company.

1871 Employing 521 men and 85 boys [2]

1876 First traction engine produced.

1876 Exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show at Birmingham with a new expansion gear actuated by the governor. Details of their feeder for sheaves. [3]

1878 Built a railway locomotive and two more in 1898 and 1902.

1881 Employing 1,437 men and 137 boys [4]

1888 Issued catalogue of tea-preparing machinery with steam engines and boilers. Second catalogue on engines - portable, semi-portable, traction, fixed, horizontal and vertical, condensing; boilers, locomotives and vertical, and saw benches. Another section on road locomotives, portable and fixed engines, thrashing machinery, elevators and mills. [5]

1894 Catalogue of Tea preparing machinery. [6]

1895 Horizontal Engine with gear drive for Stockport Waterworks (Wilmslow Station).

1911 Smithfield Club Show. Exhibited a new steam tractor, a portable engine, a thrashing machine, a patented fire-box and various accessories.

1911 Horizontal Rotative Engine for Chatham and Rochester Waterworks (Luton Station). [7]

1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Steam Motor Wagons, Tractors and Ploughs etc. see the 1917 Red Book

1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Paraffin Commercial and Agricultural Motors, Tractors, Ploughs, Sprayers, etc. see the 1917 Red Book

1914 Agricultural and General Engineering for Home and Abroad. Specialities: "Marshall's Oil Tractors" and Jackson's Patent Tea Machinery. Employees 5000. [8]

1920 February. Issued catalogue on Cornish, Lancashire and water-tube boilers. [9]

1920 Royal Agricultural Show at Darlington. 16 bhp portable oil engine (illustrated). [10]

1927 See Aberconway for information on the company and its history.

1929 The company absorbed Clayton and Shuttleworth.

1935 October. Bought by T. W. Ward. Employs 930 men. [11]

1936 1st AGM. Joseph Ward is Chairman [12]

1837 2nd AGM. Joseph Ward is Chairman and Ashley S. Ward is deputy-Chairman and Managing Director [13]

1937 Engineers and boiler manufacturers. [14]

1943 Name changed.

1947 Marshall, Sons and Co merged with John Fowler and Co Ltd to form Marshall-Fowler.

1961 General engineers and machinery manufacturers, producing diesel crawler tractors, diesel road rollers, diesel wheeled tractors, distillation plant, tea preparing machinery, fire tube packaged boilers, earth moving equipment, heavy fabricated steel work, diesel shunting locomotives and wire drawing machinery. 3,048 employees. [15]

1970s The factory in Gainsborough was derelict in the 1970s. There is now a supermarket standing on (part of) the former Britannia Iron Works site.

Marshall, Sons and Co. built the boiler for the Fairbairn steam crane which stands on the dockside in Bristol. The maker's plate reads "Marshall Sons and Co. Ltd., Engineers, Gainsboro, England, No.92766".

Agricultural Machinery

See Marshall. Sons and Co: Agricultural Machinery

Stationary Engines

  • S Type (8 - 25 bhp)
  • H Type (15 - 50 bhp) (1923/4 - )
  • T20 (1936 - 1944)

Steam Engines

See Marshall, Sons and Co: Steam Engines

Tractors

See Marshall, Sons and Co: Tractors

Notes

There is a Marshall portable boiler currently restored and in use as the steam source for the Westonzoyland Museum

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1861 Census
  2. ↑ 1871 Census
  3. ↑ The Engineer of 21st July 1876 p40 & p43
  4. ↑ 1881 Census
  5. ↑ The Engineer of 27th April 1888 p338
  6. ↑ The Engineer of 27th April 1894 p360
  7. ↑ The Engineer of 8th December 1911 p593
  8. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  9. ↑ The Engineer of 27th Feb 1920 p208
  10. ↑ The Engineer of 25th June 1920 p650
  11. ↑ The Times, Monday, Oct 28, 1935
  12. ↑ The Times, Thursday, Jun 11, 1936
  13. ↑ The Times, Thursday, Dec 16, 1937
  14. ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  15. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  • The Complete Encyclopedia of Tractors by Mirco de Cet published in 2006 by Rebo International ISBN 978-90-366-1893-9
  • 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. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
  • Steam Engine Builders of Lincolnshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1955 by Goose and Son
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