Clayton Equipment Co.

The Clayton Equipment Company of Hatton, Derbyshire is a British industrial locomotive builder, founded in 1931. The firm specialises in narrow-gauge and standard-gauge industrial battery, diesel and steam-shunting locomotives for collieries, tunnelling, quarrying and factory use, and remains active. For British Railways, Clayton built the BR Class 17 'Clayton' Bo-Bo diesel-electric of 1962, an unsuccessful design with two underfloor power units that was withdrawn from service by 1971.