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Author: | Roger Cooke [ 03 Feb 2011, 14:25 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ransomes and Rapier wartime build BDCs |
Chris, A fascinating photo, thanks for posting. It is interesting to note that these military cranes have boiler fittings which appear to match those used on (the later) DS1580 as evidenced by the presence of the safety valves at the rear. The six built immediately before the war for the GWR/SR had GW boiler fittings and the safety valves were round the front, inside the cab area (which is not really ideal), but which conformed with the eccentric (and typically GWR) practice started with GWR 2 in 1908. The two cranes R&R built for the LNER as replacements for the two conscripted Cowans Sheldon 45-tonners appear to have been the same as the GWR/SR six and had GW fittings and axleboxes etc. All 14 of these cranes had Cochran-Hopwood boilers (as does DS1580), but when did R&R first use a boiler from Cochran of Annan (DS1560?) and did all of R&R's subsequent breakdown cranes use Cochran-Hopwood boilers, or did they buy from any other source? Anyone know? |
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