Two electric switching locomotives designed to meet special requirements of quarry service built by Metropolitan-Vickers Co., for Broken Hill Proprietary Co., New South Wales; each locomotive is capable of handling switching service of four cars each of 30 tons capacity at 5 to 10 m.p.h. on level and up to maximum gradient of 1 per cent; locomotives are of swiveled double-truck central-cab type; other important features and dimensions given. (See also Elecn., vol. 101, no. 2620, Aug. 17, 1928, pp. 175-176, 4 figs.; Elec. Rev., vol. 103, no. 2648, Aug. 24, 1928, pp. 334-335, 3 figs. Metropolitan-Vickers Gaz., vol. 11, no. 188, Nov. 1928, pp. 112-113, 4 figs.)
Novel electric shunting locomotives
Engineer
Engineer ; 146 , n 3788
1928
2 pages
3 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Novel electric shunting locomotives
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Novel electric shunting locomotives
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
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