Dodds & Son
Other Business Names:
- Dodds, Isaac
- Holmes Engine & Railway Works
- Horseley Coal & Iron Co
- Dodds, Thomas W
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Felling, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, North East, England
- Rotherham, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Professional services
Engineering consultancy services - mechanical
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Transport equipment production
Railway locomotive, rolling stock & components production & repair
Notes:
Traced origins to Isaac Dodds, 1801-82, who emerged as a leading consulting mechanical engineer who also came to own a railway locomotive manufacturing business at Holmes, Rotherham which opened in about 1840 and closed shortly after 1866; the plant was known as Holmes Engine & Railway Works. Previously he had an engineering works at Felling, Gateshead, and in the 1830s managed Horsley Coal & Iron Co. Dodds acted as engineer to, inter alia, Monkland & Kirkintillock Railway, Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co and Sheffield & Rotherham Railway Co and was close to John Stephenson of the railway contractors, Stephenson, Mackenzie & Brassey. Another customer was Hooper & Co, coopers and carriage manufacturers of London. 1850 joined by his son, Thomas W Dodds, 1826-99. The firm of Dodds & Son closed in c1868 having lost money on a Spanish railway contract. Thomas W Dodds continued as a railway consulting engineer and manager