Industry & technology (215 pages found in this category)


Round Foundry

Engineering works off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds in Yorkshire, built for Fenton, Murray and Wood.

Roundwood

Roundwood is a wooded peninsula on the River Fal in Cornwall, where there is evidence of occupation and settlement since at least the Iron Age.

Ruby Cycle Company

British motorcycle manufacturer, active from 1909 until 1922.

RW Kit Cars

RW Kit Cars Ltd. was an English manufacturer of kit cars, founded in 1983 by Roger Woolley.

Rytecraft Scootacar

Fairground dodgem car converted to road use by the British Motorboat Manufacturing Company, produced from 1934 until 1940.

Salamanca

Salamanca, designed and built by Matthew Murray in 1812, was the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive.

Sarah Baker

English actor, theatre manager, and one of the most successful self-made women of her time.

Scammonden Reservoir

Reservoir in the South Pennines supplying water to Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.

Scoot-Mobile

Three-wheeled motor vehicle the prototype for which was produced in 1947. The body was a modified aircraft fuel tank, and the wheels also came from an aircraft.

Scott Sociable

British two-seat, three-wheeled automobile produced from 1921 to 1925 by the Scott Autocar Company Company, unusual for its offset front wheel.