Ruston (engine builder)
Ruston was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840. The company is best known as a manufacturer of narrow and standard gauge diesel locomotives and also of steam shovels.
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| Industry | Engineering |
| Fate | Merger |
| Predecessor | Proctor and Burton |
| Successor | Ruston & Hornsby |
| Founded | 1857 (1840) |
| Defunct | 1918 |
| Headquarters | Lincoln, England |
| Products | Engines, Locomotives, Steam Engines, Turbines |
| Subsidiaries | Ruston-Bucyrus |
Ruston (engine Builder) Media
A 3hp Ruston engine type PB of 1935
Ruston & Hornsby traction engine of 1922 (ser.no.115100)
Ruston & Hornsby 2 hp portable engine no. 163844 Tiny Imp at GDSF 2008
Ruston & Hornsby threshing machine (left) 2nd half of the 19th century (SN 27894) at Riga open-air museum (Latvia)
Talyllyn Railway No. 5, built by Ruston & Hornsby in 1940
Rushton 2cyl gas engine, at Dareton, New South Wales (Wentworth Region). The coke gas producer is at left, that feeds the 2cylinder 128 horsepower (95 kW) engine with 6 ton flywheel. This ran the irrigation pump to draw water from the Murray River for the Coomealla Irrigation Area. It is now an exhibit in a park in the town.
Pelham Works, Lincoln next to the A15
Former site of Thorngate House in Lincoln, which was demolished in 2004 and redeveloped for residential use
