R and W Hawthorn Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, from 1817 until 1885. Robert Hawthorn first began business at Forth...
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R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, usually referred to as Hawthorn Leslie, was a shipbuilder and locomotive manufacturer. The company was founded...
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locomotive manufacturer R and W Hawthorn to create Hawthorn Leslie and Company in 1886, when the founder Andrew Leslie retired. Between 1854 and 1885 the ship yard...
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Crampton locomotive (section Built by R and W Hawthorn)
service in 1907. Notes: Originally built by Tulk and Ley in 1849, rebuilt with new works number by Hawthorn LCDR Sondes class 4-4-0ST. Rebuilt by Kirtley...
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HMS Jervis (category J, K and N-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 26 August 1937. The ship was launched on 9 September 1938 and commissioned...
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was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 1 February 1927, launched on 22 February 1928 and completed on 19...
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was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK), with the keel being...
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Construction of the Majestic and Wilberforce classes (nos. 12-23) was allocated equally to Robert Stephenson and Company and R and W Hawthorn Baxter state Shildon...
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HMS Quilliam (G09) (category Q and R-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 19 August 1940, launched on 29 November 1941 and commissioned on...
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GWR Sun Class (category Hawthorn locomotives)
Built by Stothert and Slaughter, this locomotive was named after an African spear Aurora (1840 - 1866) Built by R and W Hawthorn and Company with 14 in...
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Leslie and Company. When Andrew Leslie retired in 1886, A. Leslie and Company merged with the locomotive manufacturer R and W Hawthorn to create Hawthorn Leslie...
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born and educated in Newcastle upon Tyne. The son of a coal agent, he was a pupil with Messrs. R and W Hawthorn, engineers, 1834–41; draughtsman and office...
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East Lancashire Railway (1844–1859) (redirect from Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington and Colne Extension Railway)
Dewsbury and Manchester Railway, and two to the Eastern Counties Railway. In 1848, the ELR's four 2-2-2s were rebuilt as 2-4-0s by R and W Hawthorn. In about...
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Class locomotive. Hawthorn (1865 - 1876) Built by Slaughter, Grüning and Company, it was named for the founder of R and W Hawthorn and Company Hedley (1865...
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List of preserved British industrial steam locomotives (section R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company)
shipbuilders A. Leslie and Co. The drawings and patterns of Black, Hawthorn and Co. of 1865 was bought by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. in 1902. Several...
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1902, with drawings, patterns and goodwill being bought by R & W Hawthorn and Leslie of Newcastle. Preserved Black, Hawthorn locomotives include: Holden...
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and merged with GEC in 1968. In 1989 GEC merged with Alstom. "R and W Hawthorn, Leslie and Co Ltd". Industrial Railway Record no. 169, June 2002, pp 146-158...
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GWR Bogie Class (category Hawthorn locomotives)
R and W Hawthorn. Brewer, John. "Broad Gauge 4-4-0 Tanks". Broadsheet (17). Broad Gauge Society: 3. Tuplin, William (1971). Great Western Saints and Sinners...
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HMAS Quadrant (category Q and R-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
to 70 depth charges carried. The destroyer was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne, England on 24 September...
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LNWR Bloomer Class (category London and North Western Railway locomotives)
were built by R and W Hawthorn and four by Vulcan Foundry. A further twenty of this design were built at Wolverton Works between 1857 and 1861. Numbers...
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4-4-0ST Sondes class Crampton locomotives from R and W Hawthorn. These soon proved to be unreliable and would shortly afterwards had to be rebuilt as conventional...
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"Boxers" and a trailing axle was added. In the next four years three more locos followed, one each by R and W Hawthorn and Robert Stephenson and Company...
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Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne (category Pages using cite ODNB with both doi and id parameters)
engineer and shipbuilder, chairman of R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company (1886–1916), Mayor of Newcastle, (1885–1886 and 1886–1887), and deputy Lord...
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Crataegus laevigata (redirect from English Hawthorn)
known as the Midland hawthorn, English hawthorn, woodland hawthorn, or mayflower, is a species of hawthorn native to western and central Europe, from...
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Crataegus (redirect from Hawthorn berry)
commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, Mayflower or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the...
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Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-2 (redirect from Cape Town Railway and Dock Company)
dismissed in October 1861 and construction was taken over by the Company itself. In 1859, an order was placed with R and W Hawthorn in Newcastle upon Tyne...
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machinery consisted of two horizontal compound steam engines built by R and W Hawthorn, which were fed by four double-ended fire-tube boilers. The engines...
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GWR Leo Class (category Hawthorn locomotives)
three came from R and W Hawthorn, who named them after strong animals. The next three were named after volcanoes by Fenton, Murray and Jackson, while the...
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promontory, and some of the construction materials were landed there. Sixteen locomotives, shortly increased to 26, were ordered from R and W Hawthorn, and rolling...
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Victorian Railways B class (1861) (category Hawthorn locomotives)
The first order for seven locomotives was placed with R and W Hawthorn in February 1861 and in April 1861 for seven locomotives of the same design with...
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