Author: Jack NorbeckPublisher: Crestline
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
I Worked with Traction Engines
Author: Jack HampshirePublisher:
ISBN: 9780956407337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Jack Hampshire grew up in the early years of the 20th Century in Sussex, where his father owned a threshing and haulage business. From an early age he was looking after steam traction engines, and driving them on the road when barely in his teens. This is his memoirs of this time in his life, which lasted until the firm shut in 1928, and is an almost unique telling of what it was really like to work with road steam on a commercial basis.
Author: William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.)
Author: Charles E. Hooker
Author: James H. Maggard
Author: Kenneth WellsTraction Engines
Author: Derek A. RaynerPublisher: Shire Publications
ISBN: 9780747805250
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Traction engines steam engines to haul loads on the roads developed in the mid 1860s and were usually dirty, noisy and somewhat crude to handle. This book brings together much information about these engines, from the earliest to the latest, about how they worked and what they did. Attention is also given to the various derivatives of the traction engine the humble portable, the well-known steam roller, the steam tractor, majestic road locomotive, ploughing engine and, last but not least, the King of the Road, the glorious and glittering showman's engine. The informative text is accompanied by illustrations that show something of the age in which traction engines worked and of the age when they became treasured historic relics. Engines appear at rallies and other events all over Great Britain and in many other countries. On these occasions they are visited and admired by thousands of people and are now part of our engineering heritage.
Author: Philip Arthur Wright
Author: William Jesse Hughes
Author: Brian Johnson