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Henry Baldwin papers - English Electric SR 10203 brochure
English Electric brochure for BR Southern Region's 16SVT powered 10203
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Re: Henry Baldwin papers - Gardner Diesel brochure
Hi,
These Gardner diesels are great power plants.
I did my last two years of appenticeship at the dealers for them in Victoria
which was Diesel Services in Clayton on the corner of McNaughton Rd and Dandenong Road.
Sadly, the place no longer exists.
They had a 5 cylinder Gardner there they used for generating electricity when there were power shortages.
After overhauling engines, they were run for a day or two on a dynomometer where they were tested and adjusted.
I used to work on the cylinder heads doing the valves, and had some time in the injector pump room and overhauled injectors.
Had to lap the inside of injector nozzels and grind the points of the needles that seat in them to very fine angular tolerances to get the right spray pattern, ensuring the spray was so fine in order to burn in heat generated by the compressed air in the engine cylinder. Had to achieve a high pitch squealing sound from them as they injected to achieve all this, and it is amazing how such a minute fraction of a degree difference on the needle grinding can make huge difference.
This Gardner page brought back these memories.
Mayne Nicholas used to run Gardner powered trucks interstate and brought them in eack quarter of a million miles for engine pull down and inspection, but there was practically nothing ever wrong.
Victorian Railways ran L3s and LWs in railcars and they occasionally came in too but the railways did most of the work on them.
The bigger articulated railcars, had two 8 LWs one driving onto each axle in the centre engine room. I remember when they changed to reverse direction, one gearbox could stay in forward (so to speak) if thigs were't right, without the driver knowing and one engine could then be dragged in reverse and so be starved of oil as the oil pump was also in reverse, and this process caused a meltdown of the bearings. An undesirable condition indeed.
It was then when we saw them for sure. The bearings are white metal and they all came in a common size ready to be bored out with special borers and boring machines to the required size.
They seemed to never wear out though.
The later LX engines had slipper type bearings as I remember.
There is an operational articulated railcar at Daylesford.
The engines are very low down. There is a lot of space above them in the engine room and there are catwalks around them (but no cats).
With later higher speed diesels, road operators wanted more speed to get to where they were going quicker, so the engines were surposedly secretly twigged up with another 100 or so RPMs.
Ooops, I shouldn't have said that! Anyway none threw their con rods but this was near the end of their long lived popularity.
They were great for trucks, trains, generating plant and marine use.
A bit heavy for aeroplanes perhaps, but they are truly great engines.
Gardners were great in generating plant, trucks, trains and marine use. Truly great engines - and they still are!
These Gardner diesels are great power plants.
I did my last two years of appenticeship at the dealers for them in Victoria
which was Diesel Services in Clayton on the corner of McNaughton Rd and Dandenong Road.
Sadly, the place no longer exists.
They had a 5 cylinder Gardner there they used for generating electricity when there were power shortages.
After overhauling engines, they were run for a day or two on a dynomometer where they were tested and adjusted.
I used to work on the cylinder heads doing the valves, and had some time in the injector pump room and overhauled injectors.
Had to lap the inside of injector nozzels and grind the points of the needles that seat in them to very fine angular tolerances to get the right spray pattern, ensuring the spray was so fine in order to burn in heat generated by the compressed air in the engine cylinder. Had to achieve a high pitch squealing sound from them as they injected to achieve all this, and it is amazing how such a minute fraction of a degree difference on the needle grinding can make huge difference.
This Gardner page brought back these memories.
Mayne Nicholas used to run Gardner powered trucks interstate and brought them in eack quarter of a million miles for engine pull down and inspection, but there was practically nothing ever wrong.
Victorian Railways ran L3s and LWs in railcars and they occasionally came in too but the railways did most of the work on them.
The bigger articulated railcars, had two 8 LWs one driving onto each axle in the centre engine room. I remember when they changed to reverse direction, one gearbox could stay in forward (so to speak) if thigs were't right, without the driver knowing and one engine could then be dragged in reverse and so be starved of oil as the oil pump was also in reverse, and this process caused a meltdown of the bearings. An undesirable condition indeed.
It was then when we saw them for sure. The bearings are white metal and they all came in a common size ready to be bored out with special borers and boring machines to the required size.
They seemed to never wear out though.
The later LX engines had slipper type bearings as I remember.
There is an operational articulated railcar at Daylesford.
The engines are very low down. There is a lot of space above them in the engine room and there are catwalks around them (but no cats).
With later higher speed diesels, road operators wanted more speed to get to where they were going quicker, so the engines were surposedly secretly twigged up with another 100 or so RPMs.
Ooops, I shouldn't have said that! Anyway none threw their con rods but this was near the end of their long lived popularity.
They were great for trucks, trains, generating plant and marine use.
A bit heavy for aeroplanes perhaps, but they are truly great engines.
Gardners were great in generating plant, trucks, trains and marine use. Truly great engines - and they still are!
Last edited by reidgck on 02 Sep 2010 14:17, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Henry Baldwin papers - Gardner Diesel brochure
I say long live the mighty Gardner if modern diesel engine manufacturers had a brain they would learn something.
If it is not built in the mother country it is inferior.
LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE
If it is not built in the mother country it is inferior.
LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE
Henry Baldwin papers - Crossley spec sheets
Old Henry seemed to have alot on Crossley's. Did that mean that the TGR were seriously considering Crossley powered locomotives?
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Henry Baldwin papers - English Electric diesel brochure
Publication number DE165, Diesel engines for rail traction. Would date from mid-50's. I've been told that Henry visited the UK about this time. Most of these brochures would have been collected from a trade show I suspect.
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Re: Henry Baldwin papers
Crossley scavenge pump diesel engines. These engines are two strokes, similar in concept the EMD/GM engines
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Re: Henry Baldwin papers - Crossley EST engines
Crossley model EST diesel engines for industrial use
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Re: Henry Baldwin papers - English Electric 3600HP ELECTRICS
Brochure for the big 3600hp Spanish electric locomotives. Similar locomotives were supplied to the Sao Paulo railway in Brasil, and some slightly larger ones to Indian Railways.
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- TD123.pdf
- Spanish National Railways (RENFE) 3600hp electric locomotive brochure
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