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Worcester Engine Works Company

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in Russia was obtained. But after the completion of the Russian order no further orders were received and the company made further losses resulting in the shareholders agreeing to voluntary liquidation in 1872, with the liquidation being complete by May 1874.
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hit the company; orders dried up and lavish spending by the directors (mainly on the company buildings) saw the company make significant losses. A small return to profit was made in 1869 and a contract for the supply of 15 locomotives to the
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in 1864. Over the next nine years the company built locomotives for several British and European railway companies before the company went into
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in 1872 with the company being full liquidated by 1874. The premises built by the company in Worcester still stand and are a
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Martin, Ian (July 2020). "On the outside looking in: a short history of the Worcester Engine Works Co Ltd, 1864–1872".
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carriage works in Worcester were destroyed in a fire in 1864 and the railway company decided to move the work to
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station. For the first three years the company was profitable having received and fulfilling orders from the
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companies as well as a small number of locomotives for contractors, two of which eventually ran on the
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rather than rebuild in Worcester. A number of local businessmen, led by
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was a short lived British railway engineering company established in
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Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society
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Manufacturing companies based in Worcester, England
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Public
Worcester
Worcester
voluntary liquidation
Grade II listed building
Great Western Railway
Swindon
Alexander Clunes Sheriff
Worcester Shrub Hill
North Staffordshire Railway
Great Eastern Railway
Bristol & Exeter Railway
Lwów-Czerniowce-Jassy Railway
Austria-Hungary
economic panic of 1866
Nicolas Railway
Historic England
"Worcester Engine Works (1390158)"
National Heritage List for England
Martin 2020


"The Worcester Engine Works Co Ltd"
Martin 2020


Martin 2020
"No. 23873"
The London Gazette

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