Dick, Kerr and Company was a locomotive manufacturer based in Kilmarnock, Scotland and Preston, England.
Having previously been known as W.B.Dick and Company the company had built all kinds of tramway equipment and rolling stock. From 1883 the company joined with John Kerr and under its new name, it built around fifty locomotives up to 1919. The company faciities in Preston were acquired in 1893 along with the railway and tramway plant activities...
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