Abstract
FROM relatively early days, the problem of the wastage of firebox stayheads has troubled successive locomotive engineers, who from time to time have devoted considerable attention to investigating its cause, with, however, little real success. In 1924 the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, with the co-operation of all the British railway groups, commenced an exhaustive examination of the prob1cm, a report on which has now been published by the Institute of Metals. The main conclusions of the authors of the paper, Messrs. 0. F. Hudson, T. M. Herbert, F. E. Ball, and F. H. Bucknall, may be summarised as follows:
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T., F. Locomotive Firebox Stays and Plates. Nature 124, 709 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124709b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124709b0