. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ptation of two lectures delivered at theRoyal Engineers Institute, and is devotedmostly to descriptions of the , con- struction and operation of locomotives be-longing to the London & NorthwesternRailway; but in describing the motivepower of that line the author producesa series of pictures which reflect ratherfaithfully the locomotive practice of theBritish Isles. The work is quite lavishlyillustrated by excellent cuts and will provea useful reference to people desiring in-formation a
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ptation of two lectures delivered at theRoyal Engineers Institute, and is devotedmostly to descriptions of the , con- struction and operation of locomotives be-longing to the London & NorthwesternRailway; but in describing the motivepower of that line the author producesa series of pictures which reflect ratherfaithfully the locomotive practice of theBritish Isles. The work is quite lavishlyillustrated by excellent cuts and will provea useful reference to people desiring in-formation about foreign locomotive de-signs. The Lunkenheimer Fusible Plug. The Treasury Department, in enforcingthe provisions of Section 4436 of theUnited States Revised Statutes, regard-ing the specifications as to the manu-facture of fusible plugs, have directedattention to this well-known article, andrequire that all plugs used on boilers ofsteam vessels should be made of bronzeand have no other filling but pure Bancatin. Many fusible alloys have been used. f • SHm™S? r-»:KJ [J irj ti D t OUTSIDE TYPE which, although melting at very near thesame point as Banca tin, were not abso-lutely reliable. Since the disaster atPhiladelphia last fall, the United StatesSteamboat Inspection Service of theTreasury Department, has taken cogni-zance of the fact that inferior plugs werebeing used, and issued a circular requir-ing that all fusible plugs should be filledwith pure Banca tin and stamped with themanufacturers name, and that an affi-davit setting forth this fact should befiled with the inspector having charge ofthe boiler inspection at whatever pointthe plugs are used. Two forms of plugs, namely, the out-side and inside patterns are shown withthis. They are made to be screwed in,either from the inside of the boiler orfrom the outside through the fire-boxor shell. They are manufactured by theLunkenheimer Company, of Cincinnati,Ohio. The C. W. Hunt Company, West New-Britain, N. Y.
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