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CIÉ 001 Class
The Córas Iompair Éireann 001 Class locomotive was manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers at their Dukinfield Works in Manchester. The 001 Class locomotive was the backbone of mainline passenger and freight train services on the Irish railway network for forty years from 1955 until the mid-1990s when they were replaced by the new IE 201 Class, 201 Class. Engines Crossley Initially they were fitted with eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine, two-stroke, port-controlled Crossley engines. These were a Two-stroke cycle#Loop-scavenged, loop scavenge type, which utilised a patented principle that recycled the normally wasted Exhaust pulse pressure charging, exhaust-pressure pulse to boost charge air in the cylinder. They produced at 625 Revolutions per minute, rpm and could do . The original sandbox (locomotive), sandboxes, which were used to improve traction with the rail, were removed after a few years. Their Crossley engines proved to be notoriously unreliable from the start. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan-Vickers
Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, it was particularly well known for its industrial electrical equipment such as Electrical generator, generators, steam turbines, switchgear, transformers, electronics and railway traction equipment. Metrovick holds a place in history as the builders of the first commercial transistor computer, the Metrovick 950, and the first British axial-flow jet engine, the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2. Its factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, was for most of the 20th century one of the biggest and most important heavy engineering facilities in Britain and the world. History Metrovick started as a way to separate the existing British Westinghouse, British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company factories from United States control, which had proven to be a hindrance to gaining government cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
