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Irish Narrow Gauge - Contractors and Suppliers

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Contractors - by Name

• Armstrong Whitworth & Co.
• John Best
• Bourke
• Butler & Fry
• Campbell & Son
• Messrs Chamberlain & Hookham
• Collen Brothers
• Connor & Manisty
• Courtney & Co.
• Courtney & Stephens
• Thomas I. Dixon
• Electric Construction Company
• Elwell & Parker
• Fielding & Platt
• L. Gardner & Sons
• Gilkes
• Green & King
• Hepburn
• Dr Edward Hopkinson
• Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons
• P. & W. McClellan
• William McCormick
• McCrea and McFarland
• McKeon, Robinson & d'Avigdor
• Edward Manisty
• W. M. Murphy
• Topham, Jones & Railton
• Turnbulls
• Pauling & Co.
• Alexander Ward
• Robert Worthington

Messrs Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.

• 1924: CDRJC: renewal of girder bridge over Finn River near Clady
• http://www.vickersdefence.co.uk/bmain032.htm

Messrs John Best

• office: Leith, Scotland
• also known as: John Best (Contractors) Ltd, public works contractors, Edinburgh, Midlothian
• records: 1892-c1960 : specifications, contracts, press cuttings, photographs etc National Archives of Scotland, Reference : GD310, [NRA 35728 Best]
• CB&PR: Crosshaven extension

Messrs Bourke

• WCR

Messrs Butler & Fry

• office: Ballymena
• 1880.02: took over from Connor & Manisty the construction of BR

Campbell & Son

• office: Belfast
• 1898: CDR: stations on Strabane-Londonderry section

Chamberlain & Hookham

• 1921: GCT: tramcar meter

• Another well-known motor meter, working on a somewhat similar principle, is that of Chamberlain and Hookham. In its improved form this meter consists of a single horseshoe permanent magnet formed of tungsten-steel having a strong and constant field. Two air-gaps are made in this field parallel to each other. In one of these a copper disk, called the brake disk, revolves, and in the other a copper armature disk. The latter is slit radially, and the magnetic field is so arranged that it perforates each half of the disk in opposite directions. The armature is immersed in a shallow vessel filled with mercury, which is insulated from the vessel and the armature, except at the ends of the copper strips. The current to be measured passes transversely across the disk and causes it to revolve in the magnetic field; at the same time the copper brake, geared on the same shaft, revolves in the field and has local or eddy currents produced in it which retard its action. The principle of the meter is to make the breaking and driving action so strong that the friction of the train becomes immaterial in comparison. This meter is an ampere-hour meter and applicable only to continuous current circuits.

Messrs Collen Brothers

• CLR

Messrs Connor & Manisty

• office: 65 Great George's Street, Belfast
• principals:
  • James Connor
• 1878.12.13: signed contract to construct BR for £39,200
• 1879.01: started construction of BR
• BC&RBR

Messrs Courtney & Co.

• stations and rail for CDR Strabane & Letterkenny section

Messrs Courtney & Stephens

• 1 Blackhall Place, Dublin
• props: William Courtney, William Stephens
• 1877: signalling for B&LR

Messrs. Thomas I. Dixon

• office: Belfast
• 1875-: B&LR
• C&VBT
• 1903: CDR: Ballyshannon branch
• CDR: Donegal - Killybegs

Electric Construction Company

1889.05: formed by the merger of Elwell-Parker with The Electrical Power Storage Company and The Railway Electrical Construction Company. 1900.07: GCT: dynamo history: http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Engineering/Electrical/ECC.htm

Elwell & Parker

• 1882.10: founded by Thomas Parker and Paul Bedford Elwell
• offices: Commercial Road, Wolverhampton
• 1887: GCT: generator at Walkmills
• 1889.05: merged with The Electrical Power Storage Company and The Railway Electrical Construction Company to become E.C.C.

Fielding & Platt

• 1911: GCT: engine and generator at Portrush Depot

L. Gardner & Sons Ltd

• diesel engines
• http://groups.msn.com/LGardnerSonsPatricroft/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-gb

Messrs Gilkes

• turbines
• extant: www.gilkes.com

Messrs Green & King

• WCR

Hepburn

• office: Strabane
• C&VBT: Castlederg Station

Dr Edward Hopkinson

• BNT
• Hopkinson was the representative of Siemens in Ireland

Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons

• CDR: Strabane-Letterkenny
• records: Glasgow University Archives and Business Records Centre
  • Reference : UGD254/1 [NRA 32523 McAlpine]
  • 1882-1971 : accounts, staff and plant records, contracts, agreements
• extant: website

Messrs P. & W. MacLellan

• works: Clutha Ironworks, Glasgow
• GCT: Victoria Jubilee Bridge
• records: Glasgow University Archives and Business Records Centre
  • Reference : UGD153
  • 1822-1988: Financial Records
  • 1822-1979: Production Records
  • 1864-1970: Staff Records
  • 1867-1989: Administrative Records
  • 1868-1933: Plans
  • 1880-1945: Photographs

William McCormick

• prop: William McCormick
• L&LSR

Messrs McCrea and McFarland

• LLSR: altered gauge of Letterkenny line (started 1881.05)
• CVR
• CDR: Stranorlar to Glenties
• props: Basil McCrea, John McFarland
• -1883-: engineer: George Culverwell

McKeon, Robinson & d'Avigdor

• 1885: also known as: McKeone & Robinson, Railway Contractors, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, London
• principals:
  • E. H. d'Avigdor
• solicitor: Thomas Downes
• S&SR: agent and engineer: ? Woods

Edward Manisty

• Dundalk
• 1893: Donegal Railway, Mourne Bridge
• prop: Edward Manisty

Messrs W. M. Murphy

• SCR
• prop: William Martin Murphy

Pauling & Co.

• office: Westminster
• LBER

Messrs Topham, Jones & Railton

• office: London
• 1898: CDR: Strabane-Londonderry

Messrs Turnbulls

• 1900.07: GCT: turbine for Walkmills

Alexander Ward

• DLST
• 1891 CMR Donoughmore Extension
  • 1891.08: contract signed
  • 1891.10: work starts
  • 1893: line opens

Robert Worthington

• principal: Robert Worthington
• 1887: CMR
  • 1887.02.04: work starts
  • 1887.07.02: Blarney section inspection by Major-General Hutchinson
  • 1887.08.08: Blarney section opened
  • 1888.02.01: Coachford section inspection by Major-General Hutchinson
  • 1888.03.19: Coachford section opened
• TDR