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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

New Forms of Rail Traction SLIDING BEARINGS

MANY EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED

DURING 1931...

REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF DIESEL-ELECTRIC

LOCOMOTIVES.

The group inroad made on the, the North of Engind, to provide passenger traffic of the railways by a rapid service on some lines and the competition of the muster to enable branch line services to be omnibus and coach, which has new worked economically un others. persisted for several" porrs, has They have 75 of these in operation, engsel increasing attention to bestfy of the 100 h.p. type, but this devoted to new forms of railway traction to help the railway con manier to win brock Some of the ravenue they have lost. The yen: which is now clowing has been notable for the dumber of vehicles which have been tested; and for the varied character of the experiments 12í.

OF BLOCK TYPE

REMARKABLE NEW

SWEDISH INVENTION,

RE,OILING NECESSARY ONCE

in

IN SEVEN YEARS.

il

Now Being Manufactured.

a 1998 Mr. Wallgren succeeded manciers and industrialists in his interesting scre well-known invention, and the Nemy Corpora

After years of experimenting a Swedish engineer, Mr. Guuaär Wallgren haa succeeded in con- structing sliding bearings of bleek type posstasing some new remark year has seen the introduction of a able features. development of this car It has After lengthy experiments in his taken the form of a twin car, 100ft, įprivate laboratory the inventor has Sin. long, and providing seats for succeeded in solving the dimcult 120 passengers. The engines are of problem theoretically ny well as the six cyclinder single-acting type. practically. The new inve supplied with steam from a small has been named the "Nomy" benr boiler working at a pressure of 300-ing and has been constructed, so ne 1. This car has attained a speed to yield the maximum

bearing Diesel-electric locomotives haval of 64 miles an hour.

capacity combined with a minimum hitherto been more popular abroad

of friction independent of the di than in England.

DIESEL-ELECTRIC CARS, This does not

roction of power in the Bearings mean that their possibilities are not

and the direction of rotation at Though the Sentinel Cammell resized. Sir W.,G. Armstrong steam rail-car has held the lead in

the axis, The, oiling problem has Whitworth & Co., in association England" for vehicles of this types due to the block type construction, been solved in an entirely new way with Mosars. Sulzer Brothers, of its supremacy is now being chal- Switzerland, recently produced three lenged by a number of others. One carried on over a period of several of the bearings, and experiments Diesel-electric locomotives for the f the most formidable of the as

years have proved that reoiling is Buenos Ayrer Great Southern piranta is the new Diesel-electrie necessary cnly once in several years Railway. Thew are working wellrail-car manufactured by Messrs. of usa. in the ordinary maburban time-table Armstrong Whitworth, which is to service, and the chairman of the he tried cut in regular service an company announced recently that the London and North Eastern, the experiments carried cut had Railway next month. Petrolelectric best fur successful that mori | railcars have been used extensively powerful Diesel engines were being abroad with success, and have been obtained so that trains of eight mufactured in a wide range of instend ni five conches right be rat. sizes: The rail-car now to be tried Far of these engines are new being out has been designed with a special in England by Mesara, eye to the requirements of the Dri- Armstrong Whitworth & Co. atch railways, and at a public test Selswood, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The few weeks ago, when it

was built for the Bermuda Rail- British railways are naturally in inspected by Mr. H. N. Gresley, the train will be tested in service on way, but it is likely that a similar tested in the performance of these chief inechanical engineer of the one of the British railways. The Diesel-electric locomotives, and Mr. London and North Eastern Rail-ule of the rolling stock for the . Bell, the assistant general pan way, the performance was regarded motor-coaches and motor vans of Bermuda Railway will consist of ager of the London and North East as satisfactory. The further tests this type. The car is driven by a eri Railway, stated recently that now to be conducted will be in re-six-cylinder. 190 hp. petrol engine, and the transmission system com- the experiment was being watched galar service" on branch lines, and prises the fivo-speed Wilson with grent interest.

are designed to ascertain the per-Drewry epicyclic pro-selective gear- formance of the car under different box with reverse. There is double- ended control pneumatically oper- conditions and details of its ranatell. The ears for Berinude feat The great aim of the railway hing cost. The ear, which has an 42 passengers, but for use on Bri- companies, however, has been to engine of 250 b.h.p., has a seating fish railways the small space re-. find meane.

quired for the power unit would to compete more capacity of 60, but is sufficiently permit greater seating accommoda qual teins with road transportowerful to haul a trailer seating bion to be provided thap in steain with vehicles more of the same more than that number. It has mul rail cars of the same length. One of the features of this new type of chemeter. These invotre far less, tiple-unit control, so that two or

car is the case with which the capital outlay, are cheaper to rus, more of the cars can be coupled power bogie can be changed. and open up the possibility of a together and controlled by OIN much more frequent service than the driver. Further cuaches are in ordinary train with the usual type courge of construction and are to be of stene locomotive. For this pur-tested for running in this way. In moe in England the London and the recent test a speed of over 190 North Burtern Railway Company miles an hour was retched. have been employing Sentinel Com- nell steam rail conches, mainly in

made

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QUEEN'S BUILDINGS,

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BATTERY TRAIN.

Wala.

was then founded with a capit- of 1,20,000 kronor (268,570). A large scale manufacturing of the new bearing in the sandard inter- national sizes yil now begin.

WAH

An

RAIL MOTOR OMNIBUS.

A new vehicle, which arcused great interest on the Great West- ern Railway, a few Sundays ago, was & motor-omnibus which ap. peared to have lost its way, Thany however,

an experimental vehicle

which the Associated Equipment Company and Hardy Another system of electrification Motors, Limited, were trying out on which railway companies are

on the railway between Slough and Reading. It was

ordinury. keeping watchful eye in the A.E.C. Regal ehasais on railway Drum battery train. This has wheels. The tests were made sub- now reached a stuge at which some je to a number of speed restric of its possibilities can be demontions, but a speed of 70 miles an hour was reached, and it was de- strated, and the trials carried out clared that with higher gears this a few weeks ago indicate that some might have been exceeded. Motor. omnibuses on railways' are not new, of its claims to be regarded as a but there is apparently large Serious competitor to the electrified field of usefulness open to them rail

wall founded.. Dr. Labroad, particularly in sparsely. Drumm, the inventor, who has been populated countries, where they might be used with advantage to working on this battery for some supplement infrequent trains. time, has had the satisfaction of To Ro-Bailer, which seeing a train driven by current in the summer, is designed to pro through a satisfactory test early from his battery taken from Dublin vide a vehicle equally at home on

wore

went

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to Bray and after an interval to re- the road, and the railway. With charge the battery taken back to rond and the other for the railway, two sets of wheels, one for the Dublin. He is satisfied that "thet is able to carry passengers or three main questions ju determin- goods through to their ultimate. ing the pterits of the battery-how aturally interested in this vehicle,

destination.. Railwaymen long will it last, what is its initial which owes its origin to the joint cost, and what is the cost of main efforts of Mr. J. Shearman, Road tenance have been answered satis Midland and Scottish Railway, and Motor Engineer of the London factorily. It is claimed that the Karrier Motors, limited, who were real value of the Drumm battery also jointly responsible for the is likely to lie in the provision of which is now being used largely as Karrier cob or mechanica), horse motive power on lines where there a substitute for the barse in rail- is not sufficient to justify the on way goods transport. The Ro- Formous expense of electrification.

Railer is still undergoing tests. The Bennie railplane, for which, a speed of over 200 miles an hour is claimed as 'n' possibility, has been tried out, but because of the short ness of the length of line nt thy

PETROL ELECTRIC CARS. Another new type of raid-car tested in England recently is that disposal of the twentor no speed

of the Drewry Car Company. This toot was possible. The drawback

an internal combustion rail

motor-coach with trailer units.

It

(Oontinued on next Volumn.)»'

to the adoption of any form of

sport of this kind is that the railplane requires overhead as well as underneath railw

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