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Tender Attached rail vehicle that holds both water for the boiler and fuel such as wood, coal, or oil. [1] [2] [3]: 80 Cab (US+ and UK+) Footplate (UK+) Compartment where the engineer (US+) / driver (UK+) and fireman control the locomotive and tend the steam supply and firebox.
The X-1800 was a watercooled 24-cylinder H-block of 2,240 in 3 displacement; [1] this was later expanded to 2,600 in 3 displacement. [2]It was intended to be used in the Vultee XP-54, Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender, Northrop XP-56, Lockheed XP-49, and Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning.
Work Completed: Replaced gear knob, passenger door and door mirrors, pulled and filled dent in rear nearside quarter panel, repainted wheels and replaced the centre caps, applied new door sill decals, replaced handbrake lever, replaced handbrake warning light, adjusted rear exhaust section to prevent it from knocking against the undercarriage, fitted a new stereo, engine service including ...
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The American Radiator company was formed in 1892 from the Detroit Radiator Company, the Michigan Radiator & Iron Manufacturing Company, and the Pierce Steam Heating Company of Buffalo. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The company was headed by Joseph Bond, (of Pierce Steam Heating Co.), as president, Charles Hodges, (of Detroit Radiator) as treasurer, and Clarence ...
Radiator caps for pressurized automotive cooling systems. Of the two valves, one prevents the creation of a vacuum, the other limits the pressure. It is generally a limitation of most cooling systems that the cooling fluid not be allowed to boil, as the need to handle gas in the flow greatly complicates design.
A radiator is a device that transfers heat to a medium primarily through thermal radiation.In practice, the term radiator is often applied to any number of devices in which a fluid circulates through exposed pipes (often with fins or other means of increasing surface area), notwithstanding that such devices tend to transfer heat mainly by convection and might logically be called convectors.
The D series (also called D/W series) is a line of pickup trucks that was sold by Dodge from October 1960 [1] to September 30, 1993. The same basic design was retained until the October 1993 introduction of a completely redesigned Ram.