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Ruston diesel locomotive, film slide
Collection of slides forming lecture "Rails in the Slate Industry" by D.R. Geering, UMIST 3rd year Mechanical Engineering Projects, c.1975 (copy of lecture notes in related material).
Here a 20 h.p. Ruston Diesel locomotive waits to haul the train, usually of three or four stones, to the foot of the upper incline. This locomotive has been re-built with an exhaust conditioner and a water tank in place of the radiator.
the line of spare wagons on the right and the compressor plant in the background.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2012.60/179
Acquisition
Donation, 29/8/2012
Measurements
Length
(mm): 50
Width
(mm): 50
Height
(mm): 2
Techniques
colour (photograph)
photograph
Material
film (photographic)
plastic
Location
In store
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