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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 8

Recapitulation of Some of the Special Advantages of Messrs. Kitson's Separate Tramway Engines and Steam Cars

Recapitulation of Some of the Special Advantages of Messrs. Kitson's Separate Tramway Engines and Steam Cars.

Some of the principal advantages of these engines are:—
(a.)The complete manner in which the machinery is all enclosed and protected from dust, dirt, &c., together with—
(b.)The accessibility of all parts of the machinery to the engine-driver at any moment for oiling, &c.
(c.)The complete manner in which the steam is condensed and disposed of without objectionable noise,
(d.)The powerful blast of hot air to the furnace, controllable at will by the driver.
(e.)The power of generating steam just as required for long or short efforts of speed and traction.
Besides these advantages, common to all the engines, the steam-car (i.e., engine and car combined, so that the weight of the cars and passengers rests partly upon the driving wheels) has special advantages of its own:—
(a.)A great saving in the amount of dead weight to be moved in proportion to paying weight.
(b.)Passenger capacity for equal length of street occupied,
(c.)Steepness of grades to be overcome.
(d.)Brake power.

N.B.—Unless specially ordered all the engines, both separate and for the steam-cars, are constructed with Rowan's Patent Condenser, and provided with all Board of Trade requirements, such as automatic brake, &c.