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Fletcher, Jennings & Co. was an engineering company at Lowca near Whitehaven, Cumberland, England.
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Overview
Fletcher and Jennings took over the business of Tulk and Ley in 1857. From then, until 1884, the company concentrated on four and six-coupled industrial tank locomotives, 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.
Surviving locomotives
Preserved locomotives manufactured by the company include:
Other locomotives
Other locomotives manufactured by the company include:
In fiction
Skarloey and Rheneas, locomotives from The Railway Series and Thomas and Friends, revealed they were built by Fletcher,Jennings & Co. in Very Old Engines, with their twins Talyllyn and Dolgoch. Captain Baxter also made an appearance in the famous railway stories.