Clayton & Shuttleworth

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Clayton & Shuttleworth was a Iron Founder & Agricultural engineering firm set up in Lincoln, to manufacture Iron pipes, Steam (traction) engines and agricultural machinery.

The history of the company goes back to 1842, when Nathaniel Clayton and Joseph Shuttleworth set up an engineering and iron-founding business in Lincoln. The firm began by making iron pipes, but the business soon branched out into steam-powered farming machinery. The company continued to prosper until the First World War and by 1914 it was operating from three factories: the Stamp End Works, the nearby Titanic Works and the Abbey Works.

During the First World War the company produced huge quantities of military equipment, including howitzers and aircraft. The Abbey Works was used to produce Handley Page and Vickers bombers and the area to the east of the factory was laid out as an airfield for testing.

After the war the Abbey Works was used to produce railway rolling stock and in 1920 a new company called Clayton Wagons Ltd was formed to handle this side of the business. Unfortunately, various financial difficulties soon beset the company and the Titanic Works was sold to Clayton Dewandre Ltd. In 1929 Clayton Wagons also ceased trading and the Abbey Works was eventually acquired by Smith's Stamping Works of Coventry and renamed the Smith-Clayton Forge.

[edit] Reference

(Initial entry from Lincolnshire Records office article) rewrite required, with more model info adding.

[edit] Products & Model range

Traction engines
Portable steam engines
Thrashing machines
Grinding mills
Railway rolling stock

[edit] Preserved Machines

Quite a few of there traction engines and some portable engines survive and have been preserved,they can be seen at shows throughout the summer around the country.

Please add any known machine details to the list.
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Preserved machines built by Clayton & Shuttleworth Ltd (Approximately 90 listed in TER list)
view • talk • edit Engine No.	Name	Build Date	Type	Weight	Power nhp	Reg No.	Owner	Image	Other info
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 11305	-	1868	Portable	-	10 nhp	-	Owner ?		Oldest known C&S in preservation in UK.^[1]
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 34980	Excelsior	1902 or(1898) ?	RR	10 ton	? hp	XC 9578	A&L Tanner		Believed to be oldest C&S Road Roller in existence
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 38742	Louise	1906	TE	9 ton	5 nhp	NL 1216	A. Lister		Lincolnshire 2008 & Duncombe Park 2009
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 43187	Atlantia	1910	TE	? ton	7 nhp	AH 5473	K. Bygrave, Kellington	To add	At Duncombe Park Steam Rally 2009
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 43200	The Gaffer	1910	TE	-	8 hp	BE 8003	C. Griffiths	Photo to Add	At Belvoir Castle 2008 & Old Warden 2009
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 44103	Enterprise	1911	TE	10 ton	7 nhp	AL 9348	M. Beeby		Lincoln 2008
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 44140	-	1911	Portable	-	?	none	Hollycombe Steam collection		In the Hollycombe collection in Hampshire
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 45333	-	1912	TE Crane	? ton	7 nhp	-	R. Scourfield & Family		Derelict but to be restored At Old Warden 2009
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 46059	Lucy Ashton	1911	TE	10 ton	& nhp	CE 7943	Owner ?		At Southport Vintage Rally 2009
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 46817	Dorothy	1914	TE (Convertible)	?	?	YA 2095	Shuttleworth Collection		This engine is in the Shuttleworth Collection
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 48154	-	1918	TE	10 ton	7 nhp	NM 1161	D. Philpot,	To add	At Old Warden 2009
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 48224	Valiant	1919	Traction engine	10 ton	7 nhp	BH 7651	P & A Blanch,	to add	At Old Warden 2009
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 48308	-	1919	Wagon	-	?	FE 2754	Thursford Steam Museum	To add	In the Thursford collection in Norfolk
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 48347	-	1919	Steam wagon	? ton	5 nhp	FE 2931	Robert Crawford collection
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 49105	-	1924	TE	-	?	TL 555	Thursford Steam Museum	to add	In the Thursford collection in Norfolk
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 50004	-	1926	Portable	-	12 hp	N/A	M. Shepherd	to Add	Holcot Steam Rally 2008
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 50010	Eileen	1926	Portable	-	8 nhp	none	Hollycombe Steam collection		In the Hollycombe collection in Hampshire
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 500012	-	1926	Portable	-	?	none	Owner ?		youngest C & S in UK^[2]
Clayton & Shuttleworth no.
Clayton & Shuttleworth no. 1234	Name	date built	type	weight	power	Reg no.	Owner		Misc info (were seen, photo taken, special features etc)

Machine types Key:	References / Sources
SW = Steam Wagon, PLG = Ploughing Engine, SR = Steam Roller, SM = Showman's Engine TE = Traction Engine, PE = Portable engine, ST = Steam Tractor , RL = Road Locomotive	↑ TER 2008, page 27 ↑ TER 2008, page 29

[edit] See Also

[edit] Links

Lincolnshire archives [1]
Steamscene website linking steam related articles [2]
NTET National Traction Engine Trust web site [3]
collection of photos of Steam engines [4]

[0] TER 2008, page 27

[1] TER 2008, page 29

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