1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class V.: Ransomes and Sims
1291. RANSOMES and SIMS, Ipswich.
Station pumping engine and boiler, etc.
This engine is especially applicable for filling water-tanks at railway stations, and such similar purposes. The pump and the engine are both mounted upon a multitubular (locomotive shape) boiler, which rests upon two cast iron pedestals, and requires no further fixing. This engine is capable of raising in 10 hours between 4,000 and 5,000 cubic feet of water, from a depth of 15 feet under the ground where it stands to a height not exceeding 100 feet above the same level. But the engine is equally adapted for any other work for which engines of its power are used.
The pump is lined with brass; the bucket packed with leather; the valves of india-rubber seated on brass, and so arranged that they can easily be taken out, two at a time, for inspection or renewal.
Weight — about 45 cwt.
Measurement — about 140 cubic feet.
A SERIES OF COMPRESSED KEYS AND TRENAILS, for Railway and other purposes. These fastenings are used very extensively on the English lines of railway, and have been almost entirely adopted in laying the railways in India and Australia. They are made of the best wood, which is cut out much larger than the finished size, is very carefully desiccated, and then compressed by machinery. These fastenings fit the chairs and rails accurately; they last longer than uncompressed fastenings; and when driven into their places in the permanent way, they return, under the influence of rain and moisture, towards their original size before compression, thus completely filling the hole into which they are driven, and holding the rail firmly in its place in the chair, and the chair firmly to the sleeper. The permanent way of the Great Northern Railway is laid with these compressed keys and trenails, and the speed and comfort attained on it prove them to be an admirable fastening. RANSOMES and Sims have a patent for injecting these fastenings with the vapour of creosote, which adds but little to the expense and greatly increases their durability.
A SAMPLE SERIES OF CASTINGS MADE BY UNSKILLED LABOUR — intended to show the perfection in production which may be obtained by the use of Patented Moulding Machinery.
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