. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . te Mr. Patrick Stirling, Mr. Ivatts pre-decessor, disliked the bogie for express lo-comotives and never used it with his insidecylinder tender-engines, only adopting itin the case of his outside cylinder 8-footwheeled type, just as he did the outsidecylinders themselves, as an unpalatableconstructive necessitv. Mr. Ivatt modestly disclaimed any crediton the score of attempting novelty anddeclared that No. 266 was virtually latest inside-cylinder single-wheeler supplied with a lea


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . te Mr. Patrick Stirling, Mr. Ivatts pre-decessor, disliked the bogie for express lo-comotives and never used it with his insidecylinder tender-engines, only adopting itin the case of his outside cylinder 8-footwheeled type, just as he did the outsidecylinders themselves, as an unpalatableconstructive necessitv. Mr. Ivatt modestly disclaimed any crediton the score of attempting novelty anddeclared that No. 266 was virtually latest inside-cylinder single-wheeler supplied with a leading bogie andlarger boiler. Those modifications, how-ever, were of sufficient importance to con- inchcs) and with different valve newer engine, which bore the nextconsecutive number, 267, has been tridfor more than a year with No. 266, the re-sult being, as Mr. Ivatt informs me, thathe could not detect any superiority ofeither over the other in point of efficiency, gf ^Bk^^^^^^^5I^^^^^^B ■ --■* 1,000 RAND AIR-COMPRESSOR PLANT—FOR QU.^RRY AND WORK ON WACHLSETT ENGINEERS OFFICE. DECORATED FOR BUNKER HILL DAY. stitute a virtually new type on the GreatNorthern, and the work performed wasalso of novel type when the capacity ex-hibited by No. 266 in the way of combinedspeed and weight-pulling was Mr. Ivatt built last year a second loco-motive of practically the same design, butwith cylinders i inch larger (i. c, IQ notwithstanding that one has 19-inch cyl-inders and the other 18-inch. Both per-formed in a highly satisfactory manner. Evidently, however, Mr. Ivatt uhimatelycame to the concluson that the larger cylin-der was preferable, the boiler proving wellable to keep it supplied with steam, for theten new engines of the same class which RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING January, 1902 have just been put to work all have 19-inch cylinders. It is noteworthy that thismethod differs entirely from that pursuedby Mr. Ivatt with his ne


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