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James Foster , an ironmaster, and engineer John Urpeth Rastrick became partners in 1816 , forming the company in 1819 . Rastrick was one of the judges at the Rainhill Trials . The company built only four locomotives, but is notable for building the '' Stourbridge Lion '' in 1829 , the first locomotive to be tried in America . This and two others, ''Delaware'' and ''Hudson'' were sold to the Delaware And Hudson Canal Company . One other, ''Agenoria'' was built for the Shutt End Railway. Agenoria was probably the first to use mechanical lubrication for its axles. Unlike the first three, it had a long life and, at the end, was presented to the Science Museum (London) in 1884 . It is now at the National Railway Museum in York . The company was officially dissolved on June 20 1831 , the assets being absorbed into the Stourbridge Iron Works of John Bradley & Co., where James Foster was the major partner and eventual sole owner. REFERENCES
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