"Lablanche"

"Lablanche"

Image Details

Title Side elevation
Creator David Joy
Date of Creation Nov 1897
Description Locomotive passanger engine. Inscribed 'Built by E B Wilson & Company, Leeds as an experiment onThomas Russell Crampton's patent. Was said to have run 70 miles per hour and to have hauled 70 goods wagons. I [Joy] had to inspect her after her last trip...she was cut down and made into a contractors' engine, as a four-coupled Jenny April 1848'.
Archive Reference END/10/2/5/2
Media Pencil on paper
Dimensions 685x996 mm