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Alley & MacLellan's early steam wagon was so successful that it remained in production with relatively few updates until the launch of Sentinel's famous Super in 1923. The company also produced steam railway locomotives and railcars, for railway companies and industrial customers. In 1917, the company was bought by William Beardmore and Company.
In 1883, the company designed a new type of high speed steam engine which was used to generate electricity on board ships. [6] [7] The company was incorporated in 1903 as Alley & MacLellan Ltd. with Stephen Alley becoming a partner after his father's death. [2] Their factory in Polmadie was called Sentinel Works. [8]
A steam wagon (or steam lorry, steam waggon or steamtruck) is a steam-powered truck for carrying freight. It was the earliest form of lorry (truck) and came in two basic forms: overtype and undertype , the distinction being the position of the engine relative to the boiler .
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Škoda-Sentinel "Super Sentinel" steam wagonThe Sentinel boiler was a design of vertical boiler, fitted to the numerous steam wagons built by the Sentinel Waggon Works.. The boiler was carefully designed for use in a steam wagon: it was compact, easy to handle whilst driving, and its maintenance features recognised the problems of poor feedwater quality and the need for it to be maintained by ...
In the steam motors built by Sentinel, the motor was derived from their already advanced steam wagon design. Small driving wheels. In a conventional steam locomotive, the 'gear ratio' is set by the size of the driving wheels. In steam motors using a geared drive, the wheel size can be reduced.
Interesting (silent) archive footage including two steam road locomotives hauling an LNER railmotor (specifically: Sentinel-Cammell steam railcar to diagram 97, no. 2198, built Oct 1929 (withdrawn Oct 1944) named "Times") You Tube: "Seen On The Road (1929)" EdJogg 23:48, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Sentinel Waggon Works (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Steam wagon manufacturers" ... Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Company; S.