A nearby locomotive builder was Peckett and Sons located on Deep Pit Road between Fishponds and St George.
The capital for the new factory in Fishponds was provided by Ronald Murray, and the facility was set up to build 16 locomotives a year.
The company carried on the previous firm's policy of concentrating on smaller engine types of various gauges, and saw some success in exporting their locomotives all over the world as far afield as South America.
Other engines built for overseas included a Heisler locomotive, developed for use on sugar estates in hot climes.
Closer to home, locomotives were supplied to the War Department in 1915, fitted with Parsons four-cylinder internal combustion engines.