CH02 - Carlisle's Crane Makers - The Cowans Sheldon Story

Author: Alan Earnshaw
Format: 210 x 202mm, Softback
Pages: 52pp - 4 colour, 120 mono illustrations
ISBN 978-1903016-04-6
Price: £9.95

Synopsis: In 1846 four young men opened what they optimistically called a locomotive works at Woodbank near Carlisle. Founded by Thomas and William Bounch, John Cowans and Edward Sheldon, the company grew to become the world's foremost
manufacturers of railways and dock cranes, turntables, traversers, coal hoists and much more besides.

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