Note 4 — Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas Representing the First Quarter-Century Of Steam Locomotives in North America

The correct name of the builder of the Rocket, according to Dendy Marshall, was Braithwaite, Milner and Co. The two brass maker’s plates on the opposite sides of the front of the locomotive’s boiler read “Braithwaite & Co./ London./ March 1838.” However, as they are of the same size and shape as the shop plates of the Philadelphia and Reading in the early 1890’s, and as there was no plate on the locomotive in the late 1880’s (see figure 51), it is quite likely that these plates are not original with the locomotive. They were probably made and installed at the time it was refurbished for exhibition at Chicago in 1893.