Private company
Maley & Taunton
UK business
Maley & Taunton was a tram and tramway engineering company. It was situated in Wednesbury in Staffordshire, England. The principals, Alfred Walter Maley (1880-1947) and Edmund MacKenzie Taunton (1884-1957) held patents for tram and tramway machinery and equipment.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industryrail transport1
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Maley & Taunton was a tram and tramway engineering company. It was situated in Wednesbury in Staffordshire, England. The principals, Alfred Walter Maley (1880-1947) and Edmund MacKenzie Taunton (1884-1957) held patents for tram and tramway machinery and equipment. The company exported globally, with its tram trucks used, among others, in Lisbon, Johannesburg, and Hong Kong, and locally – to the Blackpool tramway, Sheffield Corporation, Liverpool Corporation, Glasgow Corporation, and the Manx Electric Railway.2
Products and brands
- locomotive
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- WikipediaMaley & Taunton
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- WikidataQ6743158
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- 1WikidataMaley & Taunton on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaMaley & Taunton on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsMaley & Taunton photo by Mark S Jobling,, Public domain