Two Bntish-Built Locomotives 



The next locomotives known to have been used in this 

 country were the British machines today popularly referred 

 to as the America (figure 5) and the Stourbridge Lion (figure 6). 

 They were contracted for in England in 1828 by Horatio 

 Allen, who had been sent there for that purpose by the 

 Delaware and Hudson Canal Co., and were delivered at 

 New York City in 1829. 



The America, built by the already famous British firm of 

 Robert Stephenson & Co., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, arrived 

 from London on the ship Columbia on January 15. The 

 Stourbridge Lion, built by Foster, Rastrick and Co., of Stour- 

 bridge, arrived from Liverpool on the John Jay on May 13. 

 The delivered price of the former was $3,663.30 and of the 

 latter $2,914.90. On July 2 they were shipped up the Hud- 

 son River by the steamboat Congress to Rondout, N. Y, 

 where they arrived on July 3. 



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