Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd
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The Ashbury Carriage and Iron Company Limited was a manufacturer of railway rolling stock founded by John Ashbury in 1837 in Commercial Street, in Manchester, England, near the original terminus of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. It moved to Ashton Old Road, Openshaw in 1841 and became a limited company in 1862 as The Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company. In 1898 the works covered about 20 acres (8.1 ha) and employed about 1,700.[1]
In 1902 the business was transferred to Saltley in Birmingham when it merged with Ashbury, Brown and Marshalls. This was absorbed into the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, which later became the Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co.
Examples of its rolling stock survive to this day on preserved railways all over the world. The company name was revived in 2004 [2] by a group in North Wales to recreate some of the carriages that it built.
See also[]
- Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Co Ltd v Riche, a well known UK company law case
References[]
- ^ "The Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Limited, Manchester". The Railway Magazine pages 78-84. January 1898. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ https://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/05254367/ashbury-railway-carriage-iron-company-limited[permanent dead link]
Other references[]
- London Underground 1900/1903 Stock
External links[]
- Details of a revived incarnation
- Bluebell Ashbury Supporters and Helpers - Restoration project for three Victorian Ashbury-built carriages, now completed
- The Ashbury Composite Cars Johnson, Geoff Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, February, 1971 pp36–38
- British companies established in 1837
- Railway companies established in 1837
- Railway companies disestablished in 1902
- Early British railway companies
- Rolling stock manufacturers of the United Kingdom
- Defunct companies based in Manchester
- 1837 establishments in England
- Manufacturing companies established in 1837