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Muir Hill (Engineers) Ltd was a general engineering company based at Old Trafford, Manchester, England. It was established in the early 1920s and was significant in the production of simple rail locomotives, and later high horse power tractors and post Second World War dumpers. ==History== Muir Hill products included basic petrol engined locomotives, mainly for narrow gauge. The early locos were little more than a Fordson tractor skid mounted on a rail chassis, with a chain connecting the rear axle of the tractor to the rail wheels. Production of locomotives did not continue beyond the 1930s; the company went on to build heavy tractors and construction equipment. Muir-Hill moved on to producing dumpers also based on Fordson tractor skid units. They also built forklifts based on a tractor skid unit for a period before other manufacturers entered the market with better machines, and built some of the earlier articulated dumpers that evolved into the modern ADT. Muir-Hill later moved into tractor production which continued until the 1980s. The company name and manufacturing rights transferred hands a number of times, first to E. Boydell and Co, then Winget, then Babcock and Wilcox, then Aveling-Barford, then to Lloyd Loaders (MH),〔("Muir-Hill" ), Muir-hill.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2013.〕 Muir-Hill tractors have survived longer than comparable models, and a number have been subject to restoration. Threlkeld Quarry Museum holds examples of Muir Hill equipment.〔("Threlkeld Vintage Excavator" ) Flickr photograph〕 The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway has two examples. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muir-Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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