page_title: Merryweather & Sons
section_title: Tram engines
hierarchical_section_title: Merryweather & Sons / Tram engines
caption_attribution_description: English: Tramway locomotive ‘’Victoria’’ by Merryweather &amp; Sons, Clapham, London to be delivered late 1878. As supplied to Paris, Rouen, Barcelona and other continental tramways.The Evening Post
context_page_description: Merryweather & Sons of Clapham, later Greenwich, London, were builders of steam fire engines and steam tram engines.
  The founder was Moses Merryweather of Clapham, who was joined by his son Richard Moses.
context_section_description: Merryweather supplied the steam machinery for John Grantham's steam tramcar in 1873. Between 1875 and 1892 the factory produced about 174 steam tram engines, of which 41 were used in Britain, 46 in Paris, 6 in Kassel, Germany, 15 to Barcelona, 15 in the Netherlands, 11 in New Zealand and 15 in Rangoon. 6 engines of 1881 went to the Stockton and Darlington Steam Tramway Company. An example of a Merryweather tram engine is preserved in the Dutch Railway Museum at Utrecht, RSTM 2, built in 1881 (or 5?, built in 1882?).
caption: Wellington tramways locomotive Victoria, New Zealand 1879.
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