By: Richard Stratford5th Apr 2020 5:45PMre the Gibbons & Harris loco. It is a good subject for someone to research just what part Gibbons and Harris actually played in the construction of the five locos commonly called by this name. The boilers were made by others and I suspect the wheels and engine units were too. Perhaps G & H only cobbled the major parts together and fabricated the tanks, cab, bunker etc themselves. Incidentally, the fifth loco, which still substantially exists, never carried a G & H maker's plate. Its plate was inscribed 'Whangarei Engineering Co., Makers, 1912".