Hawks of Gateshead

Hawks of Gateshead, formally Hawks, Crawshay & Sons, was a major Tyneside ironworks at Gateshead, operating in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The firm built early locomotives for the Wallsend Waggonway in the 1810s, including the Steam Elephant of about 1815 (designed by John Buddle and William Chapman).

The firm was a major iron founder for the construction of the Tyneside ports and the early Tyne railways. It went out of business in 1889 in the face of competition from the larger integrated steel works of the Cleveland coast.