. Railway Times . ndTrading Company, and the locomotive here illustrated has beendesigned for hauling tank wagons on the metre gauge. It issaid to be the first petrol locomotive which has yet been built,and it will supersede the steam locomotives which havehitherto been employed to work oil tank trains front thecompanys oil fields. What has chiefly militated against thetion of liquid fuel for locomotives has. ol course, beenthe high prii e of the oil after it has been transported so manymiles from the source of production. In Assam the cosf olfuel will be so small that a locomotive of this typ
. Railway Times . ndTrading Company, and the locomotive here illustrated has beendesigned for hauling tank wagons on the metre gauge. It issaid to be the first petrol locomotive which has yet been built,and it will supersede the steam locomotives which havehitherto been employed to work oil tank trains front thecompanys oil fields. What has chiefly militated against thetion of liquid fuel for locomotives has. ol course, beenthe high prii e of the oil after it has been transported so manymiles from the source of production. In Assam the cosf olfuel will be so small that a locomotive of this type can beworked far more economically than any other kind of will be used to a great extent for shunting pur-poses 11 has been built throughout of massive design. The engiin has hair 1 ylinders and develops 50 brake horse- powei at 900 revolutions. It works in either direction and two speeds -viz., \\ and 10 miles per hour. It can haul a load of 07 tons, on thi level, at to miles per hour, or the. Petrol Locomotive Assam Oilfields iami load on a gradienl ol t in 84, at 4^ miles an hour,This tractive power, which was guaranteed by the builderswas considerablj exceeded during trials. When travelling at4^ miles per hour on a gradient of i in 20 the draw-bar pullwas 1 The fuel consumption is exceedingly testbench trial using ,U gallons of petrol per hour, with theengine running 900 revolutions a minute and developing0 brake horse-power, the consumption per brake horse-owei per hour being only .65 of a pint. The valves arc allme, hanii ally operated and the magneto is fitted with the Murray attachment, which facilitates the starting of theengine. The latter drives through gearing and then by two; . running in oil baths, on to one of the axles. Arrange-ments have been provided bj which these chains arc alwayskept at thi proper tension, rhe multiple disi clutch is fittedwith springs to ensure easy starling, and the shoi k is taken upby spring
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