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1877 Article-Charles Burrell & Sons, Ltd., 8 H. P. Steam Ploughing Engine |
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The Engineer Magazine, 12 Oct 1877, pg. 262 |
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1/25/2013 1:33:01 PM |
We illustrate above an 8-horse steam ploughing engine, constructed by Messrs. Charles Burrell and Sons, St. Nicholas Works, Thetford. We referred to this engine in our report of the Liverpool Show of the Royal Agricultural Society. The principal peculiarities about it are its small width—it in only 7 ft. 3 in. wide, although the tires of the driving wheels have e breadth of 20 in.—a reversible fore-carriage, which can be turned round to lengthen the wheel base when the ploughing drum in removed, and a small drum mounted on the driving axle end carrying 80 yard; of steel wire rope, which can be used to help the engine out of a. hole, to work a derrick, and for many other purposes.
The steam jacketed cylinder is 9 in. diameter. The piston stroke is 12 in. There are 30.5 square feet of firebox, 140.5 square feet of tube surface. The fire-grate has an area of 5.25 square feet.
The engine stands low, and is very compact; steel has been freely used, and all wheels having heavy strains put on them are kept close up to the bearings. The workmanship in excellent. When the ploughing drum in taken off, a very efficient traction engine remains; and we have thus an engine well adapted for general use as a ploughing engine in winter, a thrasher in autumn, and a traction engine in summer. The engine we illustrate in one of a pair built for ploughing on the double system, but the design can, of course, be modified to work on the single system, if required
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1877 Charles Burrell & Sons, Ltd., 8 H. P. Steam Ploughing Engine
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