Written by a Hunslet’s former Sales Director,  with 40 years experience at the firm, this book is a fascinating history of this important private builder, specialising in industrial locomotives. Starting with a survey of Leeds as an early major railway manufacturing centre and looking at Murray’s Middleton locomotives, it then covers in detail the industrial, narrow and standard gauge, locomotives with which Hunslet and Leeds subsequently became synonymous. It also describes the effect on the firm of the expanding British Empire, repeated wars, and political influence. There are also chapters on non-railway products, electric train building, and the closure of the old plant. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos (many never before published), maps, and plans of the works.