Forty-one electric freight locomotives and one experimental electric passenger locomotive being built by Metropolitan-Vickers Elec. Co., for service on main lines of Great Indian Peninsula Railway; each locomotive has motors totaling 2600 hp., and weighs over 120 tons; working on heavy gradients. (See also Modern Transport, vol. 19, no. 474, Apr. 14, 1928, p. 10, 2 figs.; Modern Transport, vol. 19, no. 490, Aug. 4, 1928, pp. 9-11, 5 figs.; Engineering, vol. 125, no. 3243, Mar. 9, 1928, pp. 297-298, 5 figs. partly on supp. plate, vol. 126, nos. 3264, Aug. 3, 1928, pp. 134-136, 5 figs., 163-166, nos. 3265, Aug 10, pp. 163-166, 17 figs. partly on p. 168 and supp. plate; Tramway and Ry. World, vol. 58, no. 19, Apr. 19, 1928, pp. 194-195, 2 figs.; vol. 64, no. 8, Aug. 16, 1928, pp. 65-72, 13 figs.; Int. Ry. Congress Assn. -- Bul., vol. 10, no. 7, July 1928, pp. 569-574, 5 figs.; Ry. Gaz., vol. 48, nos. 10, Mar. 9, 1928, pp. 322-323, 4 figs., nos. 18, May 4, pp. 616-618, 7 figs.; Ry. Engr., vol. 49, nos. 579, Apr. 1928, p. 137, 4 figs., nos. 583, Aug, pp. 299, 1 fig.; Elec. Times, vol. 73, no. 1904, Apr. 19, 1928, p. 567, 1 fig.; Elec. Rev., vol. 103, no. 2645, Aug. 3, 1928, pp. 183-185, 7 figs.; Elec. Ry. and Tramway Jl., vol. 59, nos. 1461, July 13, 1928, pp. 43-44, 2 figs., nos. 1465, Aug. 10, pp.123-128, 11 figs.; Metropolitan-Vickers Gaz., vol. 11, no. 185, Aug. 1928, pp. 40-42, 7 figs. partly on pp. 36-37 and 39; Indian Eng., vol. 83, no. 25, June 23, 1928, pp. 346)


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    Title :

    Electric locomotives for India


    Additional title:

    Elecn


    Published in:

    Electrician ; 100 , n 2602


    Publication date :

    1928


    Remarks:

    2 Figs.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




    Electric locomotives for India

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1928


    Electric locomotives for India

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1928


    Electric locomotives for India

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1928


    Electric locomotives for India

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1928


    Electric locomotives for India

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1928