Peckett and Sons

The company began trading in 1864 at the Atlas Engine Works, St. George, Bristol, as Fox, Walker and Company,[1] building four and six-coupled saddle tank engines for industrial use.

They also built stationary engines and pioneered steam tramcars, the first being tested in Bristol in 1877.

The company continued producing a variety of small industrial and shunting engines at their factory located between Fishponds and Kingswood in Bristol.

Although in 1956 an attempt had been made to enter the diesel-mechanical market, the last steam engine was produced in 1958 and the company was taken over by Reed Crane & Hoist Co Ltd on 23 October 1961, which itself later went into liquidation.

Many Peckett locomotives survive working on today's heritage railways around the world.