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Ruston & Hornsby was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England founded in 1918. ... (B7380), built at the plant in 1917, [2] [3] was named the Wings of ...
The British Rail Class 97/6 0-6-0 diesel shunting locomotives were purpose-built for departmental duties by Ruston & Hornsby at Lincoln in 1953 (97650) or 1959 (97651-654). There are minor technical differences between 97650 and the 1959 batch.
Joseph Ruston became a partner in the company in 1857 by buying Burton's share and the company changed name to Ruston, Proctor & Co. and grew to become a major agricultural engineering firm. In 1865 Ruston became the sole proprietor and in 1899 the firm became a limited company with a workforce of over 1000.
Richard Hornsby & Sons was an engine and machinery manufacturer in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England from 1828 until 1918. The company was a pioneer in the manufacture of the oil engine developed by Herbert Akroyd Stuart , which was marketed under the Hornsby-Akroyd name.
Shunting locomotives that have been based on the railway but now moved elsewhere are Ruston and Hornsby 0-4-0 183062 which used to shunt the milk depot at Chard Junction, and former Stanton and Staveley Iron Works 57, a Rolls-Royce Sentinel 0-6-0.
Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd was an engineering company established in 1930 and jointly owned by Ruston & Hornsby based in Lincoln, England, and Bucyrus-Erie based in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the latter of which had operational control [1] and into which the excavator manufacturing operation of Ruston & Hornsby was transferred. The Bucyrus company ...
Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 DM Class 165 Operational, mostly used for shunting. [2] 294266 Sir William McAlpine: Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 DM Class 48 Operational, mostly used for shunting. Bought directly from Sir William McAlpine. Same class of locomotive as was used by contractors to remove the original Middy-Line.
Ruston and Hornsby 165DS 1958 1993 - 2016 Ruston and Hornsby 0-4-0 DH number 418793 in 1958 as a demonstration prototype. It was eventually sold to British Gypsum and worked near Newark-on-Trent until 1976 when it was sold to Steetley Minerals for Downlow Quarry near Buxton. It was sold for preservation in 1991, going to the Bulmer's Railway ...