Aveling and Porter: Steam Driven Engines
Note: This is a sub-section of Aveling and Porter
1876 Philadelphia International Exhibition - British Section: Aveling and Porter's Royal Agricultural Society's First Prize Agricultural Locomotive Engine, fitted with their patent side-plate brackets;- These engines have been designed excessively for Steam Cultivation, Thrashing, Sawing, Pumping, and removing Agricultural produce. The boiler is unusually large, made of best quality plates, and tested up to 200 lbs. on the square inch; the fire-box is of Lowmoor iron. It has a single steam- jacketed cylinder mounted on the fore end of the boiler, to prevent priming and to economise fuel. The bearings of the crank- shaft, counter-shaft, and driving-axle are carried by the side plates of the fire-box extended upwards and backwarks in one piece for this purpose. This patented arrangement is shown in the illustration, and is an improvement in the construction of engines of very great value, as it saves the boiler from the strain otherwise put upon it by the working parts, and minimises the risk from strained bolt holes. The driving-wheels are of iron ; the engine is steered from the foot-plate, and in short the general characteristics of the Agricultural Locomotives are the same as those belonging to Aveling and Porter's Road Locomotives. Each engine is provided with flywheel, governors, and powerful brake; a complete set of wrenches, screw- hammer, firing tools, oil can, spare gauge glasses, studs for driving-wheels, extra safety valve, and steam pressure gauge are also supplied, free of additional charge. Two of these engines, fitted with cranes, have been employed by the Commissioners of the Philadelphia Exhibition in removing and lifting heavy material. The engine to which the Royal Agricultural Society's First Prize was awarded was one of Aveling and Porter's 10-horse power Locomotives, fitted with a single slide and ordinary link motion, and it indicated 3ó-horse power, with a consumption of three and one-fifth pounds of coal per horse power per hour, nine other engines competing. Not only was the First Prize for Road Locomotive Engines awarded to Aveling and Porter at the Royal Agricultural Society's Meeting, at Wolverhampton in 1871, but the Society's First Prize for the best waggon suitable for Traction Engines was also given to them, after a very complete series of competitive dynamo- metrical trials with waggons of all classes.[3]
1876 Philadelphia International Exhibition - British Section: Aveling and Porter's Steam Road Roller, fitted with their patent side-plate brackets;- This machine is a special adaptation of Aveling and Porter's ordinary Road Locomotive to the purpose of road rolling, and in its design and construction every improvement suggested by long experience has been adopted. The engine is carried upon four rollers of equal width, the two hind ones acting as drivers, and the two in front as steering - rollers. These latter cover the space between the two driving- rollers, and are made slightly conical in order that on the ground line they may run close together while leaving room above their axle for the vertical shaft which connects them to the engine, and which serves to support the forward part of the boiler; at the same time play is given to the vertical shaft for the rollers to accommodate themselves to the curved surface of the road. The machine can be turned round in little more than its own length, thus enabling it to roll steep hills without injury to the fire-box, while retaining the manifold practical advantages of the horizontal over the vertical boiler for locomotive purposes; amongst which may be enumerated absence of priming, economy in fuel, wear and tear, and much lower centre of gravity. It may be also noted as important features of these rollers that they are[adapted for driving stone-breakers or other fixed machinery most economically when not required for rolling and for use as traction engines. They are managed by one person. With each Roller the following free extras are supplied: feed oil can, box spanner and set of spanners, screw-hammer, two gauge glasses and washers, set of firing irons, and tube brush and rod. Aveling and Porter introduced the Steam Road Roller in the year 1868 and have since then manufactured a great number of them. Among other places they are now working in London, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Hull, Huddersfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Brighton, Darlington, Middlesbro', Blackpool, Kidderminster, Walsall. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, Newhaven, Auburn, Hartford, Newark, Richmond, Bridgeport, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Wilmington, Rochester. Berlin. Vienna. Pesth. Milan. Christiania. Stockholm. India. Canada. South America. Australia. West Indies.[4]
List of Models
| Built | Reg No. | Works No. | Name |
| 1889. | EY 1382 | 1889 | |
| 1891. | AL 9463 | 2941 | |
| 1892 | MA 9867 | 2957 | Lisa |
| 1894. | PB 9801 | ||
| 1898. | MA 5525 | 4157 | Elizabeth |
| 1899. | KE 6281 | 2436 | Valentine |
| 1899. | TA 1063 | ||
| 1900 | PM 2141 | 4604 | Mona |
| 1900. | NR 2393 | ||
| 1900. | NX 371 | 4747 | Bess |
| 1902. | RL 73 | 5192 | Flame Lily |
| 1903. | NO 754 | 5124 | Trundle |
| 1904. | MK 4299 | 11493 | Green Arrow |
| 1904. | CH 3282 | ||
| 1904. | PP 581 | 5541 | Bo Peep |
| 1904. | XD 8052 | 5598 | Lady of the Manor |
| 1905. | HR 3510 | 5623 | |
| 1905. | NO 3326 | ||
| 1906. | BF 5094 | 5995 | |
| 1906. | D 2608 | 6021 | Dougal |
| 1906 | AY 9526 | 6091 | Duchess |
| 1906. | D 2800 | 6093 | Julie |
| 1907. | BP 7501 | 6319 | Queen of Hearts |
| 1907. | PG 372 | 6323 | Grim Elf |
| 1907. | MD 4411 | ||
| 1908 | NM 291 | 6530 | Bernard |
| 1911 | EB 075 | 7414 | The Rising Sun |
| 1914 | KT 2828 | 7589 | Princess Victoria |
| No 7601 | 7601 | ||
| 1912. | DM 3079 | 7632 | Betsy |
| 1912. | PC 9014 | 7771 | Pegasus |
| 1913. | D 7078 | 7898 | Margaret |
| 1913. | D 9079 | 7899 | Southern Queen |
| 1914. | AF 3427 | 8401 | Avellana |
| 1914. | AF 4478 | 8471 | Clyde |
| 1914. | FX 7026 | ||
| 1914. | BH 7170 | ||
| 1915. | DW2166 | 8581 | Dougal |
| 1915. | AF 4442 | 8545 | Britannia |
| 1915. | OK 58 | 8489 | |
| 1915. | KM 512 | Councillor Billy | |
| 1915. | KT 6137 | ||
| 1915. | OT 4239 | 8601 | Albion |
| 1916. | SX 923 | ||
| 1916. | VN 2370 | 8754 | The Squire |
| 1917 | MKP 137 | 8752 | Silver Streak |
| 1917. | NO 1221 | 8837 | George |
| 1919. | FX 7043 | 8794 | Ophelia |
| 1919. | BH 7167 | ||
| 1919. | BP 6065 | 9036 | |
| 1920. | E 5336 | 9128 | Major |
| 1920. | AF 6001 | 9096 | Jubilee |
| 1920. | NO 1224 | 9146 | |
| 1920. | KE 2202 | 9149 | |
| 1920. | KN 9352 | 9170 | Shamrock |
| 1920. | CJ 4158 | 9179 | Whippet |
| 1920. | KE 18 | 9183 | |
| 9247 | 9247 | ||
| 1921. | NO 3867 | ||
| 1920. | L 8953 | 9347 | Sarah |
| 1920. | KE 1748 | 9354 | Lady Joanne |
| 1921 | YA 1177 | 9370 | Bertha |
| 1921. | XM 5870 | 10028 | |
| 1921. | BJ 7116 | 10079 | |
| 1921. | ES 4162 | 10121 | Herta |
| 1921. | NO 3867 | 10159 | Blackberry Jack |
| 1922. | FX 8715 | 10237 | |
| 1921. | BH 9624 | 10399 | John Hampdon |
| 1922. | 8651 FX | 10126 | Sally |
| 1922. | KX 6838 | 10350 | Phoenix |
| 1922. | FX 9641 | 10393 | |
| 1923. | NU 544 | ||
| 1923. | PD 6727 | ||
| 1922. | FX 9806 | 10445 | Semper Fidelis |
| 1923. | HO 6161 | 10460 | Joan |
| 1923. | FK 1650 | 10487 | City of Worcester |
| 1923. | DD 2068 | 10563 | Old Peculier |
| 1923. | EL 7790 | 10564 | Vera May |
| 1923. | PR 280 | 10575 | Luci |
| 1923. | YA 6375 | 10594 | No 44. |
| 1923. | 10637 | 10637 | |
| 1923. | PR 1165 | 10671 | Churchill |
| 1923. | YA 5385 | 10596 | No. 41 |
| 1923. | NM 3825 | 10718 | Number Nine |
| 1924. | NU 3041 | 10753 | Earl E. Ryzer |
| 1923. | PT 3595 | 10824 | Smokey |
| 1924. | NX 6283 | 10893 | |
| 1924. | AF 9604 | 10981 | Penare |
| 1924. | WT 6042 | 10994 | Queen Jubilee |
| 1924. | MO 3687 | ||
| 1924. | PT 3779 | ||
| 1924. | PT 4264 | 11064 | Cestria |
| 1925. | TN 216 | 11145 | Ayesha |
| 1925. | NX 8887 | 11236 | |
| 1925 | PP 4996 | 11347 | |
| 1926. | TW 5338 | ||
| 1926. | NP 7791 | ||
| 1926. | KM 2229 | 11423 | Smokey |
| 1926. | TU 1182 | 11446 | Seagry |
| 1926. | NS 787 | 11450 | Gem |
| 1926. | PT 7442 | 11451 | |
| 1926. | KM 7100 | 11486 | Morning Star |
| 1926. | RM 2588 | ||
| 1926. | RP 2925 | 11542 | |
| 1926 | MK 6933 | 11556 | Gentle Annie |
| 1926 | RP 2948 | 11583 | Caractacus |
| 1926. | SN 3875 | 11670 | Perseverance |
| 1926. | RK 8041 | 11675 | |
| 1926. | 11733 | 11733 | |
| 1927. | CJ 9720 | 11788 | Rusty Nuts |
| 1928. | BF 4501 | 12058 | Sydney |
| 1928. | 12115 | 12115 | |
| 1928. | PK 2684 | 12186 | |
| 1930. | DW 7125 | 14060 | Sir Kay |
| 1930. | VN 2094 | 14070 | Billy Boy |
| 1931. | NG 1412 | 14135 | |
| 1931 | VF 9891 | ||
| 1934. | GL 1281 | 14174 | |
| 19--. | TSV 505 | Elizabeth | |
| 19--. | UP 7685 | ||
| 19--. | HSM 473 | ||
| VH 1261 | |||
| AR 9075 | |||
| KR 478 | |||
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Philadelphia international exhibition catalogue, 1876. British section
- ↑ Philadelphia international exhibition catalogue, 1876. British section
- ↑ Philadelphia international exhibition catalogue, 1876. British section
- ↑ Philadelphia international exhibition catalogue, 1876. British section