Davies and Metcalfe

James Metcalfe (1847–1920) was apprenticed to Sharp Stewart and worked for the company until 1867 before joining the Manchester and Milford Railway at Aberystwyth as locomotive foreman.

[1] The company later moved to Romiley in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester and changed its name to Davies and Metcalfe.

It produced a range of locomotive engineering products including lubricators, exhaust steam injectors, vacuum brake ejectors etc.

[2] They also manufacture the pneumatic disc brake systems used on modern trains including the V/Line Sprinter and British Rail Class 56.

They also renovated two locomotives for the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway in 1902 (Snowdon Ranger) and 1903 Moel Tryfan).

Swindon built GWR 2-6-2 T at Devil's Bridge . The design was based on an earlier locomotive design by Davies and Metcalfe