Gilkes Wilson and Company was a British locomotive manufacturer at Teesside Engine Works in Middlesbrough which opened in 1843.
Initially repairing locomotives, the company built its first engines in 1847.
The firm undertook design, construction and manufacture of the ironwork for the Deepdale and Belah viaducts (b.1857-1860) on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway to a design of Thomas Bouch and Robert Henry Bow.
[4][5] In 1875, the name changed again to the Tees-side Iron and Engine Works Company Limited, having built 351 locomotives in total.
The 1870s Long Depression forced several Cleveland iron firms out of business including Hopkins Gilkes.