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Alfred Horlock testified at the 1849 Parliamentary commission inquiring into the application of iron for railway bridges and other structures. A. Horlock and Co suffered a series of robberies in 1851. The company was declared bankrupt in July 1853 and the factory was auctioned to shipbuilders Bell,
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for the Channel Islands and France Steam Navigation Company. The boat was powered by two 20 hp steam engines and was made primarily of malleable iron.
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built and were the only locomotives built by Horlock. They were named
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A Practical Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridges and Girders
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Locomotive Jenny Lind built by A. Horlock and Co in 1848 for the
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Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser
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Index


Steam locomotives
Steam engines
marine equipment
marine
Northfleet
Kent

Padarn Railway

Fire Queen
Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
Northfleet
Dinorwic Quarry
North Wales
steam locomotives
Crampton locomotives
schooner
Fire Queen
Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
Bangor
North Wales
ISBN
0-905100-816
"A. Horlock and Co"
Categories
Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Manufacturing companies established in 1847
Defunct companies based in Kent

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