Changes

The company also had a large business in supplying light railway materials and by 1897 were regularly advertising in trade journals which stated they could supply ''portable and permanent railways for agriculture, industrial and contractors purposes and had a large stock of light rails, sleepers and attachments, steel double-sided tipping trucks, platform wagons, bogie goods wagons, special wagons for timber, plantation and tea garden wagons, special cask wagons, conservancy wagons for municipalities, steel coal tubs and mining wagons and barrows''. They also acted as sole Indian agents for a number of locomotive builders and railway equipment companies:- British Thomson Housten (1899); Hunslett Engine Co (1904); Arthur Koppel & Co (1904); [[Robert Hudson & Co Ltd]] (1907) <ref name =WB104/>.

==Some significant Railway Business Interests==*'''[[Martin's Light Railways]]'''(MLR ) ''[[Martin 's Light Railways|see for further details]]''. Owned by Messrs ‘Martin & Co’. From 1897 onwards operated several disparate Narrow Gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) light railways in the Gangetic plain, from [[Calcutta]] in the east to [[Delhi]] in the west. '' See '''[[Martin's Light Railways]]''' for details ''*'''[[Robert Hudson Ltd]]'''. A Leeds UK based light railway manufacturer from 1883 onwards. By 1907 ‘Martin & Co. undertakings’ had become their selling Agents  ==Other known Business Interests=='' '''See separate pages for details where railways were involved''' '' *'''[[Kulti Iron Works Railway| Kulti Iron Works]]'''. An iron works originally the ‘Barakar Iron Works Co’, 1875-79; taken over by the Government of India, 1881. Sold later to the ‘Bengal Iron and Steel Co.’ with ‘Martin & Co.’ as [[Managing Agencies |Managing Agent]] from 1892 until 1919 when a new company ‘Bengal Iron Co’ acquired the business (Later in 1936 becoming ‘’Indian Iron and Steel Co.’ *'''[[Calcutta Storm Water Construction Railway]]''' . Between 1898 and 1905 the remodelling of the storm water outfall for [[Calcutta]] was undertaken by ‘Martin & Co.’*'''[[Kodaigaon Manganese Mine Railway|CalcuttaKodaigaon Manganese Mine]]'''. A manganese mining operation owned by the ‘Indian Manganese Company’, commenced operations in 1904, with ‘Martin & Co.’ as [[Managing Agencies |Managing Agent]]*'''[[Simlipal Forest, Mayurbhanj District,Tramway]]'''s Sewer System. The ‘Borooah Timber Company’ was incorporated in 1919 with ‘Martin & Co.’ as [[Managing Agencies |Managing Agent]] . The primary object of the company was undertaken to supply railway sleepers*'''[[Japla Cement Works Tramway and Ropeway| Japla Cement Works]]'''. A cement works established in 1922 in UK by Messrs Martin ‘Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers’ with ‘Martin & Co.’ as [[Managing Agencies |Managing Agent]]*'''[[Raniganj, Samla Collieries Ltd]]'''. A coal mining company, established in 1927, with ‘Martin & Company<ref name =WB104/>Co.’ as [[Managing Agencies |Managing Agent]]