. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ough they possessed features of designwhich ought to have made tlu-m famous. Coleman Sellers was the ilcscciulant ofa family that had come from Derbyshire,England, with a party brought out byWilliam Penn. They were a race of skil-ful mechanics. COLEMAN SELLERS & SONS. Coleman Sellers had four sons, ofwhom the two elder, Charles and GeorgeEscol. with him constituted the 1834 the senior died and the brotherscontinued to carry on the business atCardington, close to Philadelphia. In aseri
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ough they possessed features of designwhich ought to have made tlu-m famous. Coleman Sellers was the ilcscciulant ofa family that had come from Derbyshire,England, with a party brought out byWilliam Penn. They were a race of skil-ful mechanics. COLEMAN SELLERS & SONS. Coleman Sellers had four sons, ofwhom the two elder, Charles and GeorgeEscol. with him constituted the 1834 the senior died and the brotherscontinued to carry on the business atCardington, close to Philadelphia. In aseries of engineering reminiscences con-tributed by George Escol Sellers to theAmerican Machinist in 1885 he gives thefollowing particulars about the buildingof their locomotives. BIG PIONEER MACHINE TOOLS. In the year 1834 the foundry and ma-chine shop then carried on by my brother HI the United States, one at WestPoint, N. Y., shops and the other at Novelty Works. This primitivemachine had a capacity for 8 ft. lengthby 4 ft. wide and 3 ft. high. . In the latter part of the summer of. CHARLES SELLERS. and myself were mostly engaged on workfor iron furnaces, rolling mills, flour millsand machinery for paper making. To turnthe drying cylinders for the latter we con-structed what at that time was considereda mammoth engine lathe that would turng ft. in length and 4 ft. 10 ins. for finishing the housings for paper-press rolls and calenders, we had built andput in operation the first iron planing ma-chine in the State of Pennsylvania. If Irecollect right there were only two others % ^^1 ^^^^^^H?r^ ^^^^^p J 1^1 COLEMAN .SELLERS. ;.- 1834 James Cameron, brother of the Cameron, at that time chairmanof the Board of Canal Commissioners,called on us and said that he had beeninformed by John Brandt that we had theabove described lathe and planer, both welladapted for locomotive work and asked ifwe would undertake the building of somelocomotives for the State r
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