Yorkshire Engine Company
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The Yorkshire Engine Company was a small independent locomotive manufacturer in Sheffield. The company was formed in 1865 and produced locomotives and carried out general engineering work until 1965.
JNR No. 10, the only YEC locomotive built for Japan in 1871, on display at Sakuragicho, Yokohama
RH&DR Engine No. 10 'Dr Syn'
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway No. 9 'Winston Churchill'
YE 2481 at Kelham Island Museum in 2005
Thomas Hill (manufacturer)
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Thomas Hill Limited was a company which repaired and sold steam road vehicles, diesel and electric road vehicles and railway locomotives. It later made its name building and rebuilding diesel locomoti
Yorkshire Engine Company
…Rolls-Royce hit financial problems in 1971 they stopped all locomotive work and the YEC designs, along with those for Rolls-Royce locomotives passed to Thomas Hill at Kilnhurst, near Rotherham who had been agents for Rolls-Royce for some time. (Thomas Hill built three locos to Yorkshire design, for the Durgapur…
A Vanguard shunter built in 1966
Vanguard 0-4-0