. American engineer and railroad journal . Webbs Four-;vidt r Compound for the Paris ( xposition—London & Northwestern !Ryt4,000th Engine Built at the Crewe 1. The Paris Exposition was formally opened April 14 by Presi-dent Loubert with appropriate ceremonies and the affair wasa brilliant success. The American section is well advanced to-ward completion. It will require at least a month to bringthe whole up to a state of completion, and the motive powerwill not be ready until June. Space occupying 329,052 squarefeet has been allotted to this country. pounds of a certain well-known t
. American engineer and railroad journal . Webbs Four-;vidt r Compound for the Paris ( xposition—London & Northwestern !Ryt4,000th Engine Built at the Crewe 1. The Paris Exposition was formally opened April 14 by Presi-dent Loubert with appropriate ceremonies and the affair wasa brilliant success. The American section is well advanced to-ward completion. It will require at least a month to bringthe whole up to a state of completion, and the motive powerwill not be ready until June. Space occupying 329,052 squarefeet has been allotted to this country. pounds of a certain well-known type have given an excellentaccount of themselves here, there is reason to believe thatthe advantages of English and French four-cylinder com-pounds will be regarded with increasing interest in this coun-try. It is believed by several well-known motive power menthat the four-cylinder, balanced compound offers a greater ulti-mate increase in power than any other type. The reluctance. Fio-. of Main Driving Wheels and Cranl< Axle. Fig, of Rear Driving Wheels and Axle. 132 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. to Increase the complication andthe number of working partsmay defer a thorough trial ofthe type here for a time, butwhen a carefully designed en-gine of this kind is built andtried, this objection will prob-ably be found less serious thanit now appears. We believe inutilizing present designs to thelimits of their possibilities andin keeping in mind the factthat further progress must beprovided for. Because of Mr. P. W. Webbswork in four-cylinder com-pounds and the success he hasobtained with the principle onthe London & Northwesternwe asked him to permit us toillustrate the vital feature intheir construction, the crank«xle, and he kindly furnishedthe accompanying photogiaphsand drawing. Fig. 1 is from ahotograph of a new four-cylin-der compound express passen-^r engine, La France, which«as been sent to the Paris E
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