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Irish Narrow Gauge - Contractors and Suppliers

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Contractors - by Name

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

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

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

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

2002.07.27

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