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Title: Visitors with locomotive, 1930s [Go to resource]
Description: In 1932 the company purchased a pair of William Bagnall fireless steam locomotives for shunting vans at the factory. The big advantage of these locomotives was their ability to operate within the various despatch warehouses without either fire risk or fumes. However how do you create steam without fire? You have to generate the steam elsewhere and pump it to the engines under pressure. The new locomotives were charged at various points around the site with high pressure steam. This took about 15 minutes, and gave them an operating time of about 2 hours. One of the locomotives has survived as a static exhibit at the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: building
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peopleTemporal: start=1932-01-01; end=1939-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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