Day, Summers and Company was a British

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manufacturer and shipbuilder in the

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area. The company's history is complex and involves five men: , John Thomas Groves, Charles Arthur Day, William Baldock and Nathaniel Ogle.

Forerunners

Summers and Ogle's 1830 patent, "Specification of William Alltoft Summers and Nathaniel Ogle: Steam-engine and Other Boilers" was published by the Queen's Print Office in 1854. In around 1830 or 1831, Summers and Ogle, based at the Iron Foundry, Millbrook, Southampton, made two, three-wheeled steam carriages. In 1831, Ogle gave evidence on the steam carriage to the "Select Committee of the House of Commons on Steam Carriages". In 1832, one of the steam carriages travelled, via Oxford, to Birmingham and Liverpool. A June 1833 newspaper report described a demonstration in London: In 1834, two companies were founded at Millbrook. They were Summers, Day and Baldock and Summers, Groves and Day. In 1837, both companies moved to

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Day, Summers and Company

Groves left in 1845 and Baldock left in 1854. At some point the two companies merged and became Day, Summers and Company. The first locomotive was "Jefferson" built in 1837, a for the

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. This was modified soon after delivery by the addition of a trailing axle making it . Two more locomotives were built for the

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and two for Bourne, Bartley and Company. Of the latter, one was sold on to the

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and the other to the

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opened in 1838, Summers Grove and Day carried out much of its repair work into the 1850s, complementing

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at the other end of the line. Other new engines may have been built, but known surviving records are sparse. Dunkerque Belfried Blick vom Turm 9

References

* Lowe, J.W., (1989) ''British Steam Locomotive Builders,'' Guild Publishing Defunct shipbuilding companies of England Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom Steam road vehicles {{England-company-stub