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Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock & Company (died 1876)
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Charles Beyer
Locomotive engineer (1813–1876)
Charles Frederick Beyer was a celebrated German-British locomotive designer and builder, and co-founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was the co-founder and head engineer of Beyer, Peacock and Company in Gorton, Manchester. A philanthropist and deeply religious,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Beyer, Peacock and Company
Railway locomotive manufacturer
Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English general engineering company and railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Openshaw, Manchester. Charles Beyer, Richard Peacock and Henry Robertson founded the company in 1854. The company closed its railway operations in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)