Steam locomotive construction and maintenance, describing workshop equipment and practice in the construction of modern steam railway locomotives with notes on inspection, testing, maintenance and repairs

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CLAUDE W.ELECTRO-DEPOSITION By DENNY, A.M.I.E.E. ISAAC PITMAN & LTD,LONDON: SIR SONS,STEAM LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE DESCRIBING WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT AND PRACTICE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN STEAM RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES, WITH NOTES ON INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRSTESTING, BY E. L. AKRONS M.I.MECH.E., M.I.Loco-E.- LONDON SIR ISAAC PITMAN & LTD.SONS, PARKER W.C.2STREET, KINGSWAY, BATH, NEW YORKMELBOURNE, TORONTO, 1921PRINTED BY SIR ISAAC PITMAN & LTD.SONS, ' ENGLAND.BATH,PREFACE THIS book describes in an mannerelementary some of the which the processes principal parts of a locomotive construction,undergo during and be considered as a volumemay companion to the on The Steam LocomotiveRailwayprimer in this series. The of andsubjects foundry practice general machine dealt with in othershop processes being are here considered andprimers, they briefly only in their to locomotive con- special relationship struction. no can be made to Naturally, attempt deal with and exhaustively machinery processes in so small a and those readers who wishbook, for a more detailed treatment of the subject may be referred to The Construction the Modernof Locomotive, by George Hughes, M.Inst.C.E., not of recentM.I.Mech.E., which, though very remains the standard work on Britishdate, only locomotive and contains aworkshop practice, mass of valuable information. At the of the a hasrequest publishers chapter been added on the maintenance of the locomotive in which also in anservice, gives, elementary a short account of the wear and tear of someform, of the more and some idea of theimportant parts, repairs required. 468S2.8VI PREFACE The thanks of the author are due to Mr. G. J. Chief MechanicalChurchward, M.Inst.C.E., of the Great Western and toEngineer Railway, the various manufacturers of machinespecial tools for the illustrations. For aphotographic few other the method ofillustrations, including the locomotive and frames,erecting cylinders the author is indebted to the kindness of The Locomotive Ltd.Co.,Publishing E. L. AHRONS. NOTTINGHAM, 1920.December,