The Crampton Locomotive: PART IIdoi:10.1179/tns.1955.009DEWHURSTP. C.RoutledgeTransactions of the Newcomen Society
The Crampton Locomotive in England: PART Idoi:10.1179/tns.1955.008DEWHURSTP. C.RoutledgeTransactions of the Newcomen Society
The museum is named after Thomas Russell Crampton, who is perhaps chiefly remembered as a designer of locomotives and of railways, but he was also concerned with gas, water works and the submarine telegraph cable. He was the first to succeed in laying an effective telegraph cable under the ...
A friend of Stan Bray designed a live steam 00 gauge Crampton locomotive and made up lost wax equipment to produce castings for it. Two sets of castings were produced, one of which went to Stan. He duly made up the model. It was driven by a small oscillating cylinder on each side, ...
Mr. Crampton was one of the best-known English engineers of the middleperiod of thiscentury,hisreputationbeing chiefly based upon the popular type of locomotive-engine towhich he gave his name. He was, however, an all-round engineer, his active and powerful mind attacking difficult professional...