Hawthorns and Company of Leith Engine Works, Great Junction Street, Leith
1846 The Leith Engine Works were built by R. and W. Hawthorn to assemble steam engines ordered for Scotland
1850 The Leith works were sold to another company, also called Hawthorns and Co, which produced some four hundred locomotives on its own account until 1872.
1851 Award at the 1851 Great Exhibition. See details at 1851 Great Exhibition: Reports of the Juries: Class V.
1861 0-4-0T locomotive 'Ellesmere' is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. See photos.
1872 The works closed having built more than 400 engines
See CANMORE website for photo of works building on Mill Lane in 1970[1]
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Sources of Information
- British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816