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B. Hick and Sons, later known as Hick, Hargreaves & Co, was a British engineering company, based at the Soho Ironworks in Bolton, England.〔P. W. Pilling, ''Hick Hargreaves and Co., The History of an Engineering Firm c. 1833 – 1939, a Study with Special Reference to Technological Change and Markets'' (Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1985), p. 20〕〔''Short Histories of Famous Firms, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves and Co.'', Reprint from The Engineer, 25 June – 30 July 1920〕 Benjamin Hick had originally been a partner in Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell, later Rothwell, Hick & Co. and set up his company in partnership with two of his sons, John (1815–1894) and Benjamin (1818–1845) in 1833. Benjamin Jr left B. Hick and Sons after a year for partnership of a firm in Liverpool believed to be George Forrester & Co, however in April 1841 he filed a patent governor for B. Hick and Son featured on the front page of ''Mechanics' Magazine'' using his father's Egyptian winged motif. ==Locomotives== The first B. Hick and Sons steam locomotive ''Soho'' was built in 1833 for carrier John Hargreaves, together with an unconventional gear driven four wheeled rail carriage for Bolton solicitor and banker Thomas Lever Rushton (1810–1883). Several more locomotives followed over the remainder of the decade, a number were built for export to America including a 2-2-0 ''Fulton'' for the Pontchartrain Railroad in 1834, and ''New Orleans'' and ''Carrollton'' for the Saint Charles Avenue Line, New Orleans in 1835; a second ''New Orleans'' for the same line in 1837. Between 1837 and 1840 the company became a subcontractor for Edward Bury and Company, supplying engines to the Midland Counties Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway, the North Union Railway, the Manchester and Leeds Railway and indirectly the Grand Crimean Central Railway via the London and North Western Railway about 1855. Engines were also built for the Cheshire, Lancashire and Birkenhead Railway, Chester and Birkenhead railway, Eastern Counties Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, North Midland Railway and the Paris and Versailles Railway. In 1841 the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway found some American Norris 4-2-0 locomotives very successful, especially on the notorious Lickey Incline, and Hick built three similar ones for the line. Between 1844 and 1846 the firm built a number of "long boiler" locomotives with haystack fireboxes, plus four 2-4-0s in 1848 for the North Staffordshire Railway.〔Christiansen & Miller p. 309.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「B. Hick and Sons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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