- The 60s & 70s
- The 80s
- The 90s
- McEwen Boilermakers first commercial vehicle, KPM 500, a 1954 Austin Devon estate car . Loaded many a time with the excessive weight of oxygen cylinders, steel boiler tubes and huge ex-army ammo boxes chock full of hammers and chisels, this ‘Owd Lass’ drove all over the North of England whilst attending to boiler repairs in mills and factories.
- Welded steel 3000 gallon capacity oil storage tank.
- The firm’s first Bedford J Type truck. This bonny little truck was a real workhorse and over the years it must have travelled over a 100,000 miles and transported countless tons to sites all over Lancashire and Yorkshire.
- McEwen Boilermakers built and riveted on the smokebox and carried out other heavy boiler repairs to BR Standard 4 loco boiler.
- Client: Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
- Locomotive boiler repairs carried out on L.& S.W. Railway Class T9 locomotive, National Railway Museum, York.
- McEwen Boilermakers designed and built the steel boiler for this Union Pacific narrow gauge loco boiler for Southern’s Railway, Dobwalls, Cornwall.
- McEwen Boilermakers designed and built the steel boiler for this Union Pacific narrow gauge loco boiler for Southern’s Railway, Dobwalls, Cornwall.
- A black and white photograph of the Bedford C.F. 230 truck, loaded with a Hunslet narrow gauge steam locomotive boiler rebuilt by McEwen Boilermakers. A fast, reliable vehicle.
- The prototype of McEwen Boilermakers X Series multi tubular vertical steam boil
- Wood-fired locomotive steam launch boiler designed and built by McEwen Boilermakers. Client: Windermere Steam Boat Museum.
- Two McEwen X Series vertical steam boilers leaving Farling Top Boilerworks.
- Client: Edinburgh University.
- The picture was taken an hour or so following the delivery from the local panel beating and paint shop of this delightful Bedford J Type truck, reg. no. EUB 74Y into the Works yard.
- Two locomotive steam launch boilers designed and built by McEwen Boilermakers.
- Mac-Pac hot water boiler designed by McEwen Boilermakers to burn wood, straw, sawdust, waste paper etc.
- Alan McEwen and Michael White proudly stand in front of the ‘Lion’ locomotive following firebox repairs.
- Client: M.S.I.M.
- The firm’s first Bedford Model T.K. seen here delivering boilers to Beamish Museum, Co. Durham.
- Bedford Model T.K. 7.5 ton lorry delivering a steam roller boiler to Mr. Rufus Carr’s Garage at Rimington near Clitheroe.
- The same Bedford T.K. loaded with firewood used for steam testing a recently repaired railway locomotive boiler.
