Scottish Traders’ Wagons Volume Two Traders E to M

This volume covers Scottish traders whose business names began with the letters E to M. It describes and illustrates the wagons owned or hired by more than six-hundred businesses at over one-hundred locations from Inverness to Dumfries and Berwick upon Tweed. As well as more than one-hundred coal and ironmasters, there are entries for very nearly 400 individual coal and lime merchants. In addition to these traders, wagons on the traffic of brewers and distillers, brick and earthenware goods manufacturers, quarry owners, iron founders, flour millers and grain storage, oil and chemical manufacturers, paper makers, public works contractors, textile and jute manufacturers and municipal utilities all appear. Some businesses were large – the Fife Coal Company grew by takeover to have a fleet of over 7,000 wagons. Wagon hire was a significant feature. Many of the photographs depict wagons in liveries that only lasted a few years until they were repainted and re-lettered before going on hire to other businesses.