Taylor & Hubbard

Taylor & Hubbard was an engineering company founded in Leicester, specialising in the production of railway cranes. They later moved to Kent Street, Humberstone Road, Leicester, in approximately 1900 which gave them access to the railway siding .

History

The company was founded in the 19th century and up to the 1960s made steam cranes for railway companies in both the UK and around the world, mainly in the British Empire. By the 1960s they were making diesel-electric cranes for British Railways and hydraulic cranes for the Admiralty. Their cranes were used on oil tankers, and they sold dockside cranes for the Thames Conservancy.

Taylor & Hubbard were taken over in the early 1960s by F. H. Lloyd & Co., Ltd, of ? and in the late 1960s or early 1970s the Leicester site was closed and the work moved to the West Midlands.

Preservation

Several examples survive;

• A rail mounted works crane is at the Abbey Pumping Station museum in Leicester

See also

• List of crane manufacturers

References

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