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In 1914 the Forges at Chantiers de France fitted armor on three cars at the request of a Royal Naval Air Service squadron in Dunkirk. One of these, a 50 hp Rolls-Royce, was thus the first Rolls-Royce armored car. The armor was 6mm boiler plate, so could only protect against a rifle bullet from a distance of 600 yards (550 m) or more. [5]
Sources do not always agree on the start date for Dunkirk's Indiana Glass Company. An unrelated Indiana Glass Company existed from 1892 to 1896 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. [21] An Indiana Glass Works was inspected in Dunkirk in 1901, but its product was listed as bottles—and the Beatty-Brady Glass Company, a maker of tableware, was also ...
Awaiting boiler work. 1917: 2: CRAIG MT. LBR. CO. #3 (Craig Mountain Lumber Company (Idaho)) Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad in Garibaldi, Oregon. Operational. 1930: 1929: 3: 90 short tons (80.4 long tons; 81.6 metric tons) West Fork Logging Co #91: Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad in Elbe, Washington. Awaiting boiler work. 3: 78 short tons (69.6 ...
Another factory, dedicated to steel sheet production, was opened in Dunkirk in 1971, receiving materials by sea and from abroad. [1] In 1963 merger with Lorraine-Escaut, also formed from the merger of older companies. (Senelle-Maubeuge, Longwy and Escaut et Meuse). The financial crisis of the 1970s affected the company negatively, and state ...
Babcock-Johnson boiler: early production Johnson boilers operating at high pressures (850 psi [59 bar; 5,900 kPa]) and with water-wall ends to their furnace. [4] Babcock & Wilcox boiler; Babcock & Wilcox marine boiler; Bagnall boiler: a development of the launch boiler, with an enlarged furnace. Also known in agricultural use as the 'colonial ...
The turbines were divided between two engine rooms; the first contained the outer shafts and was placed between the boiler rooms, and the inner turbines were placed in an engine room aft of the rear boiler room. [13] The ships were rated for a top speed of 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h; 33.9 mph) from 107,000 shaft horsepower (80,000 kW) as designed.
James Campbell Clouston (31 August 1900 – 3 June 1940) was a Canadian officer in the British Royal Navy, who acted as pier-master during the Dunkirk evacuation.While returning to Dunkirk, France, his motor launch was sunk by enemy aircraft and he perished awaiting rescue.
The first twenty engines were originally domeless though all were provided with domed boilers in due course. They were numbered 2301–2360 and 2381–2580 (2361–2380 were of the 2361 class , which were similar visually but had outside frames).