Letter from Timothy Hackworth, Soho Works, New Shildon to Thomas Wrighley

PART OF:
Correspondence accumulated by Timothy Hackworth
Made:
1849-11-06
part of archive:
Hackworth Family Archive
maker:
Hackworth, Timothy

Asks him to buy engine (Sanspareil No 2), which has been tried out on the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway. States that key railway inventions started with him. Referenced in Robert Young, Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive (London: Locomotive Publishing Company, 1923), p. 350.

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1 item
Identifier:
HACK/1/1/41

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