Vehicle of 80 tons gross weight and 20,000-gal capacity built to requirements of Esso Petroleum Co Ltd; tank shape was chosen comprising two half-circles separated at horizontal center line by 1 ft 4 in. walls; tank shell is supported by forces at cradle tip only, which are largely tangential to surface; drawbar and buffing loads are carried to solebars through top and bottom shear plates, flanged at their ends to give strength in horizontal bending.
Aluminium alloy bogie rail tank wagon
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 122 , n 5
1966
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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