Timothy Burstall

Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 by Liam Physick

One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here is Timothy Burstall, designer of the Perseverance. Prior to the Rainhill Trials, Burtsall, from Leith, already had experience of designing steam road coaches, in partnership with London’s J Hill in 1824, and his locomotive is said to have resembled these