Features of first high power main line Diesel locomotive in Great Britain for passenger express and freight train service; engine incorporated is one of 16SVT type of English Electric 4-stroke engines developed from K type used extensively on LMSR shunting locomotives; it is pressure charged on Buechi principles and has BSI 12-hr rating of 1600 bhp at 750 rpm from 16 cylinders of 10-in. bore and 12-in. stroke. (Supp to Ry Gaz) (See also Gas and Oil Power v 43 n 508 Jan 1948 p 3-7; Engineer v 184 n 4796 Dec 26 1947 p 596-8; Engineering v 166 n 4317, 4318 Oct 22 1948 p 392-4 (illus) p 396, Oct 29 p 417; Oil Engine and Gas Turbine v 15 n 177 Jan 1948 p 286-9; Ry Gaz v 88 n 1 Jan 2 1948 p 16-9; Diesel Progress v 14 n 9 Sept 1948 p 42-3)
British main-line diesel locomotive
Diesel Ry Traction
1948
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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