Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grant, Ritchie and Co

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June 1888. Shears for cutting slabs at Clyde Bridge Steel Works, Rutherglen.
1888. Exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Grant, Ritchie and Co of Townholme Engine Works, Kilmarnock.

The firm was formerly Grant Brothers.

See Thomas Maxwell Grant

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.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  • 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