. The Locomotive . Devoted to Power Plant Protection Published Qliarterly Vol. XXXIII. HARTFORD, CONN., JULY, 1920. No. 3 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE Broken Crosshead on Ammonia Compressor. QQ THE LOCOMOTIVE. [July, A Mysterious Engine Accident. Ox the front cover and on the following page of this issue we arepresenting two views of an accident which occurred not longago to the steam cylinder of an Ammonia Compressor. Fortu-nately no one was injured. The machine in question consisted of a single horizontal steamcylinder with two vertical compress
. The Locomotive . Devoted to Power Plant Protection Published Qliarterly Vol. XXXIII. HARTFORD, CONN., JULY, 1920. No. 3 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE Broken Crosshead on Ammonia Compressor. QQ THE LOCOMOTIVE. [July, A Mysterious Engine Accident. Ox the front cover and on the following page of this issue we arepresenting two views of an accident which occurred not longago to the steam cylinder of an Ammonia Compressor. Fortu-nately no one was injured. The machine in question consisted of a single horizontal steamcylinder with two vertical compressor cylinders. The engineer hadstarted this engine up shortly before noon of the day of the accidentand, in conjunction with two other ice machines, it had been runningsmoothly and quietly up to the very instant of the accident. At 4:50P. M., the engineer passed through the engine room and found every-thing to be operating to his satisfaction. Five minutes after he leftthe room the oiler, who was giving his attention to one of the othermachines, heard just one crash without the slightest noise or fore-warning of any trouble. He immediately ran to the throttle of themachine and shut off the s
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