Brief description of locomotive supplied by English Steel Corp, designed to handle trailing load of 150 tons, at speed of 5 mph, on 600 yd level track 4 ft 8 1/2 in. gage; locomotive, complete, in working order, weighs 13 tons, of which some 18% is accounted for by battery; for estimated duty, lead acid battery of 90 TL 11 Exide cells was adopted: its capacity is 240 a-hr at 5 hr rate of discharge.


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    Title :

    Battery shunting locomotive


    Additional title:

    Metropolitan-Vickers Gaz


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1942


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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