Built in Britain: the independent locomotive manufacturing industry in the nineteenth century by Dr. Michael R. Bailey

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Notes

1 Technologie Sans Frontieres, Vol 219, No. 4563 (The Model Engineer), 23rd June–6th July 2017, pp 20–24.

2 E. S. Cox. British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives (Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan, 1966). Chap. VII, Test Results.

3 E.S. Cox ibid., pp. 48, 49, 87. See also page 85, E. A. Langridge, Under 10 C.M.E.s, Vol. II. pp 224, 127 photographs (Headington, Oxfordshire: Oakwood Press, 2011). (Paperback) ISBN 9780853617167

4 Built in Britain page 81. In stating that compounding and superheating were alternatives the author Michael Bailey perpetuates the fallacious argument of Dr. Robert Garbe, the Prussian Railway engineer, whose views, where they were accepted, materially retarded the thermodynamic improvement of the railway locomotive.

5 The illustration reproduced on p. 121… believed to be Nasmyth’s erecting shop … is misleading. It is Nasmyth’s drawing of Maudsley’s erecting shop and exists in at least three versions. The first does not include Maudsley’s engines for the paddle steamer Dee, r, h, side, the second does and the third, shown here, adds the locomotive production line on the l.h. side. The prominently shown cast-iron roof collapsed on the 24 May 1826 as a result of faulty design. No evidence has emerged to show that a building of this design existed on Nasmyth’s Patricroft site.

6 Decision-making Processes in the Manufacturing Sector: The Independent Locomotive Industry in the Nineteenth Century. January 1999, University of York/Institute of Railway Studies.

7 Langridge, not the most unbiased of commentators, maintains that much of Derby’s work was directed towards shaking off the Great Western influence that Stanier tried to import. Langridge op. cit. Vol I Chap. 8.

8 Manuscript held by the Inst. of Mech. Eng. Library, serialised in the Railway Magazine 1907, p. 363 et seq.

9 The Engineer, May 22^nd 1896, page 25.

10 Loco Profile No. 17, Jones Goods & Indian L Class. 24pp., illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, and coloured centrefold (Windsor, Berkshire: Profile Publications Limited, 1971). (Paperback).

11 Beattie’s background is very obscure.

12 A number of South African Garratts were built in Germany.

13 Leith Paxton and David Bourne. Locomotives of the South African railways: A concise guide. By Pp 168, illustrated (Cape Town, South Africa: C. Struik Ltd., 1985). [HB] ISBN 978-0869772119

14 It is notable that Britain had to turn to France for deep expertise in locomotive riding analysis. Leguille was an expert on bogie kinetics through his association with S.N.C.F. electric locomotives.