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The company Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was formed when steam wagon production was switched to a new factory, opened at Shrewsbury in 1915. There were several other slight changes to the name over the company's lifetime when further infusions of working capital were required to obviate financial problems.
In 1883, the company designed a new type of high speed steam engine which was used to generate electricity on board ships. [6] [7] The company was incorporated in 1903 as Alley & MacLellan Ltd. with Stephen Alley becoming a partner after his father's death. [2] Their factory in Polmadie was called Sentinel Works. [8]
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John I. Thornycroft & Company was an established marine engineering company that successfully spawned the Steam Carriage and Wagon Company for the production of steam-powered road vehicles. They supplied steam lorries to the British Army , commercial steam wagons and vans, steam cars (for a few years), and buses – London's first powered bus ...
In the steam motors built by Sentinel, the motor was derived from their already advanced steam wagon design. Small driving wheels. In a conventional steam locomotive, the 'gear ratio' is set by the size of the driving wheels. In steam motors using a geared drive, the wheel size can be reduced.
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Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Ltd Built steam wagons from 1904 to 1908 [2] Brown & May, Devizes, Wiltshire [3] Charles Burrell & Sons, Thetford, Norfolk – (MERL database entry) Clayton & Shuttleworth, Lincoln – (MERL database entry) Edwin Foden, Sons & Co., Sandbach, Cheshire; Durham and North Yorkshire Steam Cultivation Company Ltd
Category for the companies who manufacture(d) steam-powered road vehicles, such as traction engines, steam wagons and steam cars See also: Category:Steam engine manufacturers Subcategories