. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , the Americans had afree hand, and the engines were for themost part of their own design and patternand made in their own way. When they arrived we put them on to points named is, on the above showing, in-contestable. I cannot name any otherpoints in which they showed never had any doubt in my own mind asto which was the better engine of the for the possibility of repeat orders, Ican say nothing beyond again referringyou to the results of the test. Each Amer-ican engine
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , the Americans had afree hand, and the engines were for themost part of their own design and patternand made in their own way. When they arrived we put them on to points named is, on the above showing, in-contestable. I cannot name any otherpoints in which they showed never had any doubt in my own mind asto which was the better engine of the for the possibility of repeat orders, Ican say nothing beyond again referringyou to the results of the test. Each Amer-ican engine cost us ^400 less than didthose for which contracts were given toBritish firms immediately in front, and atsuch a reduction the American engineswere put free on our railways, just asEnglish engines are. Then there is an-other point. As I have shown, the Amer-icans were delivered here within a fewmonths of the order being given, yet somecontracts which we let out to British firmsin 1897 were not completed till ! Of course, that was largely thefault of the engineering =trike. and it was. HOW BRITISH ENGINES BURN THEIR SMOKE. our mineral trains running between Totonsidings. Wellingboro, and London, and setthem to do the same work as our ownstandard engines were doing. In Januaryof last year we commenced a six monthscomparative test, terminating at the endof June, between these Americans and ourstandard Midland goods engines, built byMessrs. Neilson, Reid & of Glasgow,and Messrs. Kitson & Co., of Leeds. Thetwo types were set to draw similar min-eral trains under the same conditions, anda careful account was kept of the totalmileage covered by each, the total coalconsumed and the charges for repairswhich belonged to each engine. The re-sult was conclusive and is fol-lows: Extra working cost of Americanengine over English engine: Fuel, 20-25per cent.; oil, 50 per cent.: repairs. 60 percent. It must be said for the foreign enginesthat they worked their tra
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