LOCOMOTIVE BUILDERS
Beardmores Both
For a brief period in the early 1920s, Glasgow-based engineering firm William Beardmore and Company had motorcycles and locomotives on its order books, resulting in this recently rediscovered press photo.
A Beardmore publicity shot from 1920 showing one of its 350cc Precision motorcycles on the running board of a HGS Class 2-8-0 loco being built for the East Indian Railway Company, as featured in the February 15, 1923 issue of The Motor Cycle.
THIS fascinating photograph (above) was passed to us by James Robinson, editor of our sister title The Classic Motor Cycle, a publication that can trace its lineage back to the founding of The Motor Cycle in 1903, just six years after The Railway Magazine was established.