Letter from Timothy Hackworth, Soho Engine Works, Shildon to the Chairman of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, Liverpool
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Announcing his removal from the original S&DR works to Shildon and hoping for locomotive orders.
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- Identifier:
- HACK/1/1/34
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The Chairman of the Soho Engine Works
Liverpool & Manchester 2nd April 1841
Railway
Sir,
I take the liberty of informing you that I have lately removed from the Stockton & Darlington Railway Company’s Work Shops, to an establishment of my own, and am now at Liberty to enter into engagements for building Locomotive and other Steam Engines. Should you be kind enough to favour me with an order it shall have my best attention, in the execution of Materials and Workmanship, so as to ensure a continuance of further favors [sic]
I am Sir
Your mo obead Servt
Timothy Hackworth
2 April 1841
T. Hackworth
Darlington
Wishes to supply Ct with Engine