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Originally Posted by 00000
Jim, perhaps you did not see the picture of a dismantled 771 earlier on this thread plus Seb's request for photos before it was dismantled. 771 didn't get to the end of the track and it didn't get far enough for the weights to be pulled to the top of the sled.
From memory it was running on reduced boiler pressure at that time.
771 wasn't out for much longer after this rally so I haven't got any later photos that I can find.
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Thanks for posting the picture of 771 John, I was trying to find one but I couldn't.
Completed March 1903 for W.A. McLaren in New Zealand, the engine was supplied with segment & worm steering. Cylinders are 8" / 12 ¾, working pressure 160 psi, firebox 3' 6" x 2' 10 ¾" wide, 41 5' 5" long, 2" diameter tubes.
I posted a picture a while back of a similar but later rack steer engine, 956 called 'Nil Desperandum' which worked for Allen Knight (Boilers) Ltd in Huddersfield:
Earle Warwick owner of sister 957 gave me some information about 956 and also 955 which is preserved in NZ, they were fitted with slightly smaller 7" and 11" cylinders but a higher working pressure of 200psi. All engines have the copper exhaust pipe going into the top of the smokebox next to chimney base.
Serious bits of kit I don't doubt!
3rd May 2016, 08:27 PM
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