. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . anley Falls to Monibassa onthe Indian Ocean. At least two morelines will traverse the Sahara Desert andconnect the fertile regions on the Medi-terranean and Guinea coasts. When thattime comes Lagos will be a much morefamiliar word than it is to-day.—TIi/^ Lit-tle \ April, i(X>2. RAILWAY AND LOCDMOTIVE ENGINEERING 159 General Correspondence. Water Tube Locomotive Boiler. I hand you licrcwitli photographsshowing the boiler of one of our MixclTraffic Engines fitted with water tube;in
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . anley Falls to Monibassa onthe Indian Ocean. At least two morelines will traverse the Sahara Desert andconnect the fertile regions on the Medi-terranean and Guinea coasts. When thattime comes Lagos will be a much morefamiliar word than it is to-day.—TIi/^ Lit-tle \ April, i(X>2. RAILWAY AND LOCDMOTIVE ENGINEERING 159 General Correspondence. Water Tube Locomotive Boiler. I hand you licrcwitli photographsshowing the boiler of one of our MixclTraffic Engines fitted with water tube;in the flue, in place of flue tubes in theboiler. The total heating surface is 736square feet. The engine has now been running about3 months. It is running in the same linkwith boilers fitted with flue tubes givinga total heating surface of 1,290 squarefeet, and the result shows that it averages Flash Point of Smoke. A striking corroboration of the accur-acy of the statement made in your cur-rent issue- (p. 72) that there is a flash-ing point for smoke is afforded in a casereported a few days inside, from charred wood linings of theclosets, burst into flame and the bondsand papers were consumed before theycould be rescued. It is said that there were no flames inthe vicinity when the safe was opened. A. E. OUTERBRIDGE, Jr. (We do not think that the case illus-trates so much the flashing point ofsmoke as it does the fact that any highlyheated combustible substance will burstinto flame when supplied with have frequently heard of the con-tents of safes that had been in a firegetting burned because the doors wereopened before the contents were per-mitted to cool.) WATER TI:BK boiler WITHOUT SHELL—LONDON & SOUTHWESTERN I tb. of coal per mile less than the en-gines doing the same work fitted withflue tubes. Should you desire any further informa-tion with regard to this boiler I shall bepleased to furnish it. D. Elms Wo
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