Railway and Automotive

We were delighted to work on the Tornado, the first coal fired steam engine built in Britain since 1960. Here at the Foundry we built the brass window frames, all the brass fittings in the cab and the LG4 whistle base casting.

The Steam Elephant, one of the earliest steam engines ever built, was replicated at Beamish Museum. Here at the Foundry we built the signature Elephant Plaques, cast iron fire bars, bronze axle boxes and the cast iron brake shoes.

When Puffing Billy, the world’s oldest locomotive, required restoration, we were the obvious choice for restoration. After restoring the bronze crank shaft brasses, the cast iron fire bar supports & the cast spoke wheels, it now once again stands proud in London’s Science Museum.

Working on James Bond’s Lotus is one of the more memorable jobs we’ve completed in the Foundry. With aluminium wheels no longer available for purchase, the owner commissioned us to produce reproductions from the broken original.

The pictured Thornycroft WWI supply truck was brought to us in a sorry state. With painstaking care, we rebuilt the full aluminium radiator, the brake blocks and even created the new number plates, leaving it a superb example of Edwardian engineering.