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Steam Carriages<br />

illustration is given of a little steam carriage made b<br />

Robert Fourness, of Halifax, in 1788. Figs. 1 and 2<br />

show the carriage, from which it will be seen that a<br />

three-cylinder inverted engine communicated motion to<br />

the crank shaft. The driving power was transmitted<br />

from the crank shaft to the axle through spur gearing.<br />

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riC. 1. STKAM CARRIAGE BY FOfJRNFSS<br />

Hollow plug valves admitted steam into the cylinders.<br />

and allowed the exhaust to pass out. The exhaust<br />

steam was conducted into a tank for heating the feed-<br />

water, from which the boiler was supplied. The<br />

feed-pump was driven by a crosshead attached to one<br />

of the piston-rods. Only one of the driving-wheels was<br />

keyed to the main axle, so as to allow the carriage to

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