Gibb and Hogg Locomotive Maker's Plate

This maker's plate is from a colliery locomotive that is preserved at Summerlee Museum. The plate was donated to the museum service years later.

This engine had a long career in coal mines across central Scotland, starting at Loganlea and Foulshiels Collieries in West Lothian before ended its working life at Cardowan Colliery, Stepps. It was retired in 1968, when it was moved by the NCB to Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline as an exhibit. Its design owes a lot to Ayrshire-built locomotives, as Gibb and Hogg based it on the patterns and drawings they acquired from McCulloch, Sons & Kennedy of Kilmarnock when that firm closed in 1890.

The loco was built by Gibb and Hogg of Airdrie, one of several engineering companies in the town to build small industrial locomotives. The firm was founded in 1866 but only started building locomotives in 1890. Gibb and Hogg closed in 1912 and this is now the only surviving railway locomotive built within the current bounds of Lanarkshire.