. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he matchboxstructures which compose many of our ex-press trains. The accident at Thirsk also demon-strated the advantages of the Pullmancar in case of collision ; and while acci-dents are happily of rare occurrence onEnglish railways, it is a question thatmanagers and superintendents of car de-partments might well consider, whethersome changes cannot be made whichwill approximate in some degree thestrength and stability of the Pullmancar. The following account has been given ofthe operations of this agen
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he matchboxstructures which compose many of our ex-press trains. The accident at Thirsk also demon-strated the advantages of the Pullmancar in case of collision ; and while acci-dents are happily of rare occurrence onEnglish railways, it is a question thatmanagers and superintendents of car de-partments might well consider, whethersome changes cannot be made whichwill approximate in some degree thestrength and stability of the Pullmancar. The following account has been given ofthe operations of this agency : These parties advertise that they willhave inventions patented by the UnitedStates patented by the English Govern-ment also, and they address circulars topatentees in this country to that say in their circulars that they areannual subscribers to the Official Gazettepublished by this Government, containinglists of patents granted, and that this Ga-zette is usually in their possession a monthor six weeks before the specifications ofthe patents are published at the Patent. Caledonian Railway Shops. The Turning Room. the other cars had been built with some-thing of the longitudinal stiffness of thePullman, while the train might have beenthrown off the track, there would havebeen no such complete smashing up ofcarriages. Our ordinary carriages, with their com-paratively weak sills and end construc-tion, serve quite well enough for regu-lar service, but in case of collision theycan offer slight resistance. With cars oflonger and heavier build, the alignment ofthe train may be broken, and the cars may-be thrown violently from the line and over-turned, but the bodies are more likely to re-main intact and to offer the occupants an Watch Fortign Patent Swindlers. Persons who obtain patents in this coun-try have long been familiar with the as-saults of patent selling agents, who try toobtain money from the patentees on allsorts of pretexts, principally based on theability
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