Swiftsure was the first of eight or more similar locomotives with a single pair of driving wheels built by George Forrester and Company from 1834. The tank variant was the first passenger tank engine
Vauxhall (1834)
Valve Gear of Forrester's Swiftsure locomotive (built 1834)
Edward Bury
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Edward Bury was an English locomotive manufacturer. Born in Salford, Lancashire, he was the son of a timber merchant and was educated at Chester.
Forrester single (locomotive)
…of 'Experiment and Sharp Brothers design and the D&KR board of directors asked the locomotive manufacturers to submit their own proposals; Liverpool's Edward Bury, favoured by some of the D&KR's Quaker board, being eliminated at his stage over insistence of use of an inside-cylinder design with a crank axle which…
by Unknown 1850s
London and Birmingham Railway Centenary, 1938 souvenir from the LMS illustrating the 2-2-0 locomotive of Edward Bury