. The railroad and engineering journal . ll, and the bolts driven inwith a 7lb. is supplied to the engine at a working pressure of air forced into the same by a pair of 6 ft. diameter fansdriven by one of W. II. Allen \: Companys 7 in. by 7 cylinder engines. This engine is attacheil to thehigh-pressure steam-chest to prevent noise when working,and the exhaust steam is delivered into the receiver ot themain engine. Mr. .Stroudley has adopted this arrange-ment with the various engines used for electric lighting,circulating pumps, fans, etc., for some years, the backpressur
. The railroad and engineering journal . ll, and the bolts driven inwith a 7lb. is supplied to the engine at a working pressure of air forced into the same by a pair of 6 ft. diameter fansdriven by one of W. II. Allen \: Companys 7 in. by 7 cylinder engines. This engine is attacheil to thehigh-pressure steam-chest to prevent noise when working,and the exhaust steam is delivered into the receiver ot themain engine. Mr. .Stroudley has adopted this arrange-ment with the various engines used for electric lighting,circulating pumps, fans, etc., for some years, the backpressure entirely preventing the usual disagreeable knock-ing caused by these small engines, when theexhaust is turned directly into the condenser. The aver-age , used in making the ordinary runs does not ex-ceed 3,000. The maximum speed at which this vessel hasworked on the passage between Newhaven and I lieppe givesan average from pierhead to pierhead of 19V knots perhour, the time being 3 hours 20 minutes ; the average time.
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