Manufactured a few commercial vehicle bodies
The Sun Foundry on Dewsbury Road was one of a few works set up by Charles Todd, it built fairly few locomotives, though one of them was the first to run in South Africs. They went in to building steam powered pumps and after a few changes of ownership became part of the Sulzer group
One of the early manufacturers of Trolleybuses to have premises in Leeds.
Job Day & Sons Ltd; produced a cycle-car between 1912 and 1924.
Dougill's Engineering built the Loidis between 1898 and 1904. They also built cars and commercial vehicles under the Frick name.
EB Wilson's Railway Foundry produced locomotives for many of the early railway comapnies as well as a number of overseas orders including several important orders for Spain and India. Many of their locomotives were based on the popular Jenny Lind design. The company also experimented with marine engines and road steam.
Made 'electric vehicles, trucks and locomotives' at their Prospect Works in Otley between 1914 and 1933
A photograph and drawings survive for one engine known to survive until it was scrapped during World War I.
Often known as GREENBAT this company made all manner of machinery including a number of battery locomotives in their Albion Works in Armley
Ginetta are a manufacturer of sports cars in Garforth district of Leeds.
Glover's Motors, of Woodhouse Lane, Leeds Sold an "American car" designed and assembled in the UK in 1920's. Few were sold
One of the best known of the Leeds firms having produced many notable designs such as the Austerity 0-6-0STs and the Quarry Hunslets, this company's varied products were supplied all over the world. Parts were also supplied to other builders including gear boxes to BR Swindon for the class 14 0-6-0DH locos. Babcock and Wilcox built a few Hunslet locomotives in Spain under licence.
Most of Hudsons locomotive orders were subcontracted to Hunslet, Hudswell or outside Leeds though they produced some locomotives in house in their Gildersome Foundry. The bulk of their manufacturing business was supplying light railway equipment, track, wagons, etc. Built a few traction engines in 1869
Located in the Steam Plough Works they were pioneers of the agricultural uses for steam power. They went on to apply steam to road haulage, road construction, fairground use and built a number of locomotives. The firm also branched out in to power generation and rope winding engines amongst other things.
Primarily a manufacturer of traction engines, stationary engines and diesel engines this firm also made two or three locomotives based on their traction engine designs.
The Whitham family engineering business was first established in 1794 by John Whitham.
This was the name under which the Airedale Foundry operated for around 20 years before the name Kitson & Co was adopted. The two oldest working steam locomotives in the world, India's Express and Fairy Queen were produced in this period
Early manufacturer of bus bodies on Barclay Street, Sheepscar, Leeds.
Trams were built at Kirkstall Road works
Made an 8hp cyclecar in 1913 called "The Leo" which was sold by Derry & Toms of Kensington.
Produced 5 horse trams
Mann produced steam lorries in all shapes and sizes from their works on Pepper Lane in Hunslet
Optare made buses in the former Cross Gates works of Charles Roe, taken over by employees and managers of that firm on its closure in the 1980s. The company has since moved to Sherburn in Elmet. In 2020 has changed name with the emphasis on electric vehicles and currently owned by the Indian company Ashok Leyland.
Optare made buses in the former Cross Gates works of Charles Roe, taken over by employees and managers of that firm on its closure in the 1980s. The company has since moved to Sherburn in Elmet. In 2020 has changed name with the emphasis on electric vehicles and currently owned by the Indian company Ashok Leyland.
Aviation manufacturing commenced on Balm Road at Hunslet not far from the Middleton Railway. Between the wars built a few road vehicles.
This company carried out pioneering work into Railless trams, or trollybuses as they became better known, from a small works and office on Balm Road.
The Korte car was produced by Rice & Co. Ltd of Low Hall Mills, Holbeck between 1903 - 1905
In 1953 Henry Brown designed and had built a micro car in Rodley, a forerunner to Hunslet's Scootacar
Charles Roe began by making trailers for locally produced traction engines produced and bodies for commercial vehicles in a rented works on Balm Road. They went on to make large numbers of bus bodies in a much larger works in Cross Gates.
Royal Ordnance Factory was opened during the First World War making ammunition later to produce many of the familiar tanks such as Centurions, Challengers and Chieftains.
Sterling Engineering produced a few cycle-cars powered by a JAP V2 8hp engine
Thomas Green began as a big manufacturer of lawnmowers, they diversified somewhat in to producing steam rollers, tram engines and locomotives in their Smithfield Works on North Street
Built a few plough/tractors in Guiseley 1910-1919. Also a few oil engines.
Produced Dennell motorcycles from 1906 to 1908
Coach and Motor Bus Body Makers established around the early 1940s, after the second world war the firm was taken over by coach operator Wallace Arnold, allowing that firm to overcome post war shortages. Though this meant much of Wilks & Meade's production was for Wallace Arnold, the firm did produce coach and bus bodies for a number of other operators.
This company produced quite distinctive steam lorries with their patented double ended boiler in their works on Pepper Road Hunslet. They dabbled with internal combustion engines and produced specialist bodies for commercial vehicles such as the gully emptiers that featured on some of their own steam wagons. The last steam wagon left the works in 1931 but the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co name was retained for a further 40 years
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APL
Appleyard
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Aviation/Military
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CM
Carret, Marshall and Co
Rail
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CS
Clough, Smith and Company Limited
Road
Works History
Day
Day- Leeds
Road
Works History
Doug
Dougill's Engineering
Road
Works History
EBW
EB Wilson
Rail
Road
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Works History
Elect
Electromobile (Leeds)
Rail
Road
Works History
Fi
Fisken
Road
Works History
GBAT
Greenwood and Batley
Rail
Road
Aviation/Military
Machine Tools
Works History
GIN
Ginetta
Road
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Glov
Glover's Motors
Road
Works History
HE
Hunslet Engine Co
Rail
Road
Other Items
Works History
HUD
Robert Hudson
Rail
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Some items were bought second hand (quite a lot after the first war), sold onto new homes or hired out and these were not necessarily built in Leeds.
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Jac
Jackson
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JF
John Fowler
Rail
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Aviation/Military
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JHM
J and H Mclaren
Rail
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JW
Joseph Whitham
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KTH
Kitson Thompson Hewitson
Rail
Road
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LC
Lockwood and Clarkson
Road
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LCT
Leeds City Transport
Road
Works History
Leo
The Bishop and Fuller Manufacturing Co Ltd
Road
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LTC
Leeds Tramway Co
Road
Works History
MANN
Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Co
Road
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Opt
Switch mobility
Road
Works History
Opt
Optare
Road
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RB
Blackburn Aviation
Road
Aviation/Military
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RET
Railless Electric Traction Company
Road
Works History
Rice
Rice
Road
Works History
Rodl
Rodley
Road
Works History
ROE
Charles Roe
Rail
Road
Works History
ROF(L)
Royal Ordnance Factory Barnbow
Road
Aviation/Military
Works History
Ster
Sterling Engineering
Road
Works History
TG
Thomas Green
Rail
Road
Crane
Other Items
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WC
Walsh and Clark
Road
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West
West Leeds Motor Co
Road
Works History
WM
Wilks & Meade
Road
Works History
Y
Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co
Rail
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