Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Gibb and Hogg

From Graces Guide
1898. Detail. Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.

Gibb and Hogg of Victoria Engine works, Airdrie

1866 Established as founders and engineers

1887 The business was incorporated as Gibb and Hogg Limited[1]

1890 When McCulloch, Sons and Kennedy closed they acquired their pattern and drawings

1890s Started producing railway locomotives

1911 The company went into voluntary liquidation in August[2]

1912 The company closed. They built around twenty locomotives

See Also

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Sources of Information

  • British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816