Fletcher, Jennings & Co.

Fletcher, Jennings & Co. was an engineering company at Lowca near Whitehaven, Cumbria, England.

Overview

, although other goods such as bridge girders, and blast-furnace shells for the burgeoning local iron industry, were also produced. By then nearly two hundred locomotives had been built and the company acquired limited liability as Lowca Engineering Company Ltd. It might be thought that "Lowca" is a play on the word "loco" but, in fact, it refers to the village where the factory was established in 1800.

In 1905, the name changed again to the New Lowca Engineering Company Ltd. but it was short-lived. Orders had fallen and, after a disastrous fire in 1912 all production ceased, the company being finally wound up in 1927.

urviving locomotives

Preserved locomotives manufactured by the company include:

Other locomotives

Other locomotives manufactured by the company include:

*Brigham Hall/Rothersyke of the Cleator & Workington junction railway
* [http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/mauritius01.htm Preserved Fletcher, Jennings locomotives in Mauritius]

ources

* Linked Wikipedia articles
* Kyle, Ian "Steam from Lowca" (1974)
* Wear, Russell "Some further notes on the Lowca Works", "Cumbrian Railways", Feb 2002