. Railway mechanical engineer . ood feature is that each gang foreman has his ownsupply of standard studs, bolts, nuts, washers and cotterpins, with the result that these things could be obtainedquickly. The gang foreman is always sure to have theunused ones picked up to return to his cupboard. With theusual .-Vmerican system, the workman usually gets an orderfor more than he wants, so as to be on the safe side, thenhas to go perhaps a hundred yards or more to the storeroomto get the material and any nuts, etc., that are left over areusually swept up with the rubbish. W. G. NoRiiAL Wo
. Railway mechanical engineer . ood feature is that each gang foreman has his ownsupply of standard studs, bolts, nuts, washers and cotterpins, with the result that these things could be obtainedquickly. The gang foreman is always sure to have theunused ones picked up to return to his cupboard. With theusual .-Vmerican system, the workman usually gets an orderfor more than he wants, so as to be on the safe side, thenhas to go perhaps a hundred yards or more to the storeroomto get the material and any nuts, etc., that are left over areusually swept up with the rubbish. W. G. NoRiiAL World Production of Coal.—A compilationmade by the National City Bank gives the coal productionof the world, during the recent normal years, as 1,500,000,-000 tons, 38 per cent of which was produced in this country,21 per cent in Great Britain and 20 per cent in Britain has exported 75,000,000 tons in normal years,the amount in 1916 having been reduced about half. TheUnited States exported 31,000,000 tons in Passenger Tank Locomotive, London & North Western Modern British Tank Locomotives Large Numbers of These Engines Are Used toMove Both Passenger and Goods Local Traffic BY E. C. POULTNEYMem. Am. Soo. M. E.; A. M. I. M. E. ALL the railways in Great Britain use considerablenumbers of tank engines for local passenger andgoods traffic and the tabulated statements of dimen-sions accompanying this article gives particulars of the wheelarrangements mostly favored at the present time, togetherwith the principal dimensions of a number of modern en-gines. The most usual type of tank engine for passengerservice till recently has been the 2-4-2 type, and large num-bers are still to be found on most lines. Possibly the mostnotable example of this type of engine were those built byJ. A. F. Aspinall for the Lancashire & Yorkshire, which lineprobably operates more passenger trains by tank enginesthan any other railway in England. Of the passenger trainmileage on this ro
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