Tennent’s, Whifflet Foundry 4wVBGT No. 'Robin'
Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, UK
Location: Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
Status: Display
Posted: Oct 29, 2018 @ 17:10:27 by Robin R Beck
Supplied new to R. B. Tennent & Company. Worked at their Whifflet Foundry, Coatbridge, being named ROBIN. Worked until 1984. Now displayed outdoors at the Summerlee Heritage Museum, only a mile from the factory where it once worked. Today it stands alongside a platform with other industrial locomotives, near the museum mine entrance. You once could view the locomotive up close, but the platform is now closed, in need of repair.

Three more second hand similar Sentinels also were purchased to work at the Foundry.

R. B. Tennent & Company was a firm established in 1857, manufacturing large cast iron & steel rolls, forging large cylindrical rollers, heat treating and machining to size for industrial use, as example producing sheet metal. At its height producing 50% of the UK huge rollers output. Factory closing in 1995