Steam Wagon - Steam Lorry Manufacturers

Steam Lorry Manufacturers

There were almost 160 manufacturers of steam wagons.

Many traction engine builders also built forms of steam lorry, but some firms specialised in them.

John I. Thornycroft & Company was an established marine engineering company that successfully spawned the Steam Carriage and Wagon Company for the production of steam-powered road vehicles. They supplied steam lorries to the British Army, commercial steam wagons and vans, steam cars (for a few years), and buses – London's first powered bus was a Thornycroft double-decker steam bus.

Manufacturers who specialised in the construction of steam lorries include:

• Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Ltd Built steam wagons from 1904 to 1908
• Foden
• Leyland Steam Motor Co. - Founded in 1896-1907, then became Leyland Motors Ltd (Steamers built till 1926).
• Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Company
• Sentinel Waggon Works
• Sheppee – UK company, also built steam cars (briefly)
• Steam Carriage and Wagon Company (later, Thornycroft), Basingstoke
• Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co.

Outside UK:

• Hanomag (Germany)
• Henschel (Germany)