Sharp Brothers design office

'Sharp Brothers design office' refers to the locomotive design and drawing office of Sharp Brothers (later Sharp, Stewart & Co.) of Manchester, one of the most prolific British Victorian locomotive builders. The firm's design practice followed broadly Liverpool & Manchester traditions and supplied engines to many British railways and to railways in India, France and elsewhere. Sharp Stewart amalgamated with Neilson Reid and Dübs in 1903 to form the North British Locomotive Company.