Marshall, Sons & Co.

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Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British machinery manufacturer. Their company was at the Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

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Marshall's produced large numbers of steam traction engines, steam rollers and agricultural machinery of all types.

Later production included diesel tractors such as the Field Marshall and Track Marshall.

Marshall, Sons & Co. Ltd. merged with John Fowler & Co., (Leeds) Ltd in 1947 to form Marshall-Fowler Ltd. The factory in Gainsborough was derelict in the 1970s. There is now a supermarket standing on (part of) the former Britannia Iron Works site.

Marshall, Sons and Co. built the boiler for the Fairbarn steam crane which stands on the dockside in Bristol. The maker's plate reads "Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd., Engineers, Gainsboro, England, No.92766".