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1896 Article-Richard Garrett & Sons, Agricultural Steam Locomotive |
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Cassier's Magazine Jun 1896 pg 142 |
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7/20/2011 12:30:58 PM |
A newly designed traction engine made by Messrs. Richard Garrett & Sons, of Leiston, is shown in Fig. 7. It is intended for threshing and general work. The single cylinder is bolted to the boiler barrel in the usual manner, having a wide flange all around for taking a good bearing on the boiler. The ordinary slide bars are dispensed with, and a bored guide takes their place. The usual link motion has been discarded to give place to a single eccentric reversing gear of simple construction, patented by Messrs. Mann & Charlesworth, of Leeds.
Messrs. Garrett's engine is of the four-shaft type. The governors are of the Pickering type. The engine is a substantial piece of work and possesses all the up-to-date accessories of the modern traction engine, such as a winding drum and wire rope, a brake, and a water lifter and hosepipe for filling the tank from a brook on the road side. The drawbar on the tender has straps on the sides for taking the strain, thus preventing the pull of the engine from making the tank leak |
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1896 Richard Garrett & Sons, Agricultural Steam Locomotive
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