Free Haulier Moves Locomotive for Festival
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A LOCOMOTIVE arrived at rAWaterloo last week from Glasgow, having been shipped toSurrey Commercial docks, London, and thence transported by road to the Festival of Britain South Bank Exhibition site. It will be on show there in the Transport Pavilion.
Robert Wynn and Sons, Ltd., one of the leading free-enterprise haulage concerns, undertook the road movement from London docks. The locomotive and tender were moved separately, a 16-wheeled 13-ft.-wide trailer being used for the larger unit. Coupled to a converted Pacific 270 b.h.p, six-wheeled tractor at the head. and a Scammell tractor at the rear, the outfit measured 130 ft. long and the load stood 15 ft. 10 ins. high. The total weiehi was 130 tons.
Pulled and Pushed
The tender was conveyed on a smaller trailer with a Diamond-T tractor at the head, this outfit being 90 ft. long and weighing 65 tons gross.
On the frame of the heavy trailer, which was brought up from the company's South Wales headquarters especially for the job, girders were laid parallel and 5 ft. 6 ins, apart to receive the locomotive's wheels.
The locomotiiie, a 2-8-2 type which weighed 100 tons, was loaded on the trailer at the docks without hitch early one morning last week, and on the following day at 8 p.m. movement to Waterloo commenced through the London streets.
The tender was taken into the Exhibition site first. Unloading the locomotive was accomplished by detaching one end of the trailer, jacking up the trailer and load, and then running the locomotive on to a pre-built stand.
Mr. R. T. Wynn was personally in charge of operations.
The locomotive was constructed by the North British Locomotive Co., Ltd., Glasgow, for the Indian State Railways, and being of 5-ft. 6-in, gauge, could not be brought south by rail.
On their line of route, the vehicles attracted much attention from passersby. The smartness of the units and the Read Haulage Association's colophon were particularly remarked upon.