Builders
The first Heislers were built by the Dunkirk Engineering Company of Dunkirk, New York, at the time producer of their own design of geared locomotive (called the dunkirk), of which the Heisler could be considered an improvement. They did not adopt the Heisler design, but in 1894 the Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania started to produce Heislers, and did so until 1904. Reorganised as the Heisler Locomotive Works in 1907, it produced locomotives of the Heisler design until 1941.
A & G Price of Thames, New Zealand received an order for a Heisler locomotive in 1943 from Ogilvie and Co, sawmillers of Hokitika. This locomotive went into service in 1944, 3 years after the last American built Heisler locomotive. Ogilvie and Co had a long association with Heisler engines. A & G Price built geared locomotives using "best practice", the commonest design was a Climax engine fitted with the simpler Heisler running gear.
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