|
Title: |
1896 Article-John Fowler & Co., Compound Steam Road Locomotive |
|
Source: |
Cassier's Magazine Jun 1896 pg 140 |
|
Insert Date: |
7/20/2011 10:11:24 AM |
Another road locomotive, specially built for hauling showmen's paraphernalia from town to town is shown in Fig. 5, and is manufactured by Messrs. John Fowler & Co., of Leeds. The engine illustrated, enables circus proprietors to be independent of the railway companies, the cost of road haulage being from 50 to 80 per cent, less than by rail. The owner of this engine says: —" I may tell you that in passing through Jarrow-on-Tyne, the engine and its train of ten wagons had to travel in awkward streets, parts of the train being in three streets at one time, forming something like an S. In the winter time I frequently travel thirty miles a day with a load of nearly fifty tons."
The engine is of the double-crank compound type, and is well-mounted on springs. The vertical play due to the action of the springs has been registered automatically when passing over rough roads. When running at two miles an hour the vertical movement is half an inch; when running at four miles an hour it is about an inch; and when going at the rate of six miles an hour, the vertical play is one and a quarter inches. A dynamo is fixed on a platform at the front, driven by a belt from the flywheel of the engine. Messrs. Fowler have supplied a considerable number of these engines, for drawing from thirty to fifty tons. |
|
1896 John Fowler & Co., Compound Steam Road Locomotive
|
|