Yorkshire.
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4 Ton Tipping Wagon.
STAND No. 10.
LIROM the user's point of view, probably the most outstanding feature of this wagon is the general accessi bility of most of its details, It is, as was pointed out in the preliminary reference a week ago, unique as regards the general arrangement of its components The boiler, of the locomotive type, is particularly accessible for cleaning purposes. It is disposed across the front of the wagon, and can be opened at each end.'
The Yorkshire is neither over-type nor under-tYpe, the vertical engine being, as a matter of fact, just by tin. side of the driver inside the cab. The change-speed gear, which practically consists of a single. countershaft, upon which are V30
mounted three gear wheels, with which may be engaged one or .ot,her of three sliding pinions..on the, engine shaft, sis also convenient of access in case: of need, which,will be seldom, unless it be for renewal of the, foot brake lining, as this brake operates by a contracting band on
a drum bolted to one of the gear wheel Similarly, with regard to the wit pump, this is at the off-side of the chs sis, being driven by an eccentric morint on a short countershaft.
The final drive is by a. single roll chain: driving through a. totally enclos differential gear. :on 'a rear axle of t: usual steam wagon type. A feature the Yorkshire steam wagon is the ease detachment, Of the rear road wheels, up which are mounted brake &innsfor t: accommodation of coritraating.bai
brakes. • • • — • •
We could diseern.practically no det, innovations beyond the fitting-of a .sTlis steam cock in the pipe,leading frorn-t super _heater to the engine. Closing: ti cock renders all the steam piping, Mau Mg,. the regular Stop valve, .available. I examiniticin. ' The arrangement of 't fciotbrake has been altered to removeTt: tencieriCy,for it. to reaOn the drum. The machine on vie* is a tip Wag with a -hand Or power-Operated 'tippigear, the latter being driven by geari from the engine.