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1879 Article-Clayton, Shuttleworth & Co., 12 H. P. Straw-Burning Portable Steam Engine |
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The Engineer Magazine, 13 Jul 1879, pgs. 426 & 427 |
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1/4/2013 1:35:45 PM |
STRAW-BURNING PORTABLE ENGINE
We illustrate at page 427, a 12-horse power portable engine, which will be exhibited at Kilburn during the Royal Agricultural Society‘s Show, by Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth. The engine is very similar to one exhibited at Islington in I877, and its construction is so clearly shown in our engraving that no minute description in necessary. The prolongation of the fire-box gives a very long furnace, into which the straw in fed by hand. The sliding fire door drops by its own weight, and is lifted by the lever shown, on which the fireman places his foot.
The piston in 11 in. diameter, with a stroke of l4 in.; the main fire-box is 2 ft. 10½ in. high by 2ft. long, and 2 ft. 10 in. wide; the extra box is 2 ft. 6 in. long, measured to the front of the bridge, and 1 ft. l0½ in. high; the water space above it is 5 in. deep; the tubes are 6 ft. 6 in. long; the ash-pans hold water, in which the ashes are quenching. The engine in all respects manifests that attention to detail and workmanship for which the firm in celebrated.
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1879 Clayton, Shuttleworth & Co., 12 H. P. Straw-Burning Portable Steam Engine
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