Journal of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers
Volume 53 (1963)
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Journal No.291
Annual Luncheon, 6 March 1964.
Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London: S.B. Warder, President in Chair.
Ernest Mrples, Minister of Transport, Guest of Honour.
Farquharson, Sir J.R.
The future of railways in Tropical Africa [Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton Lecture].
14-32,
Ordinary General Meeting of the Institution held at Institution of
Mechanical Engineers on Monday 29 April 1963, at 17.30 with. J.F. Alcock,
President, in the Chair. Sir James Farquharson, K.B.E., was Engineer-in-
Chief, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. Sir James,
prior to his present appointment, had had a most distinguished career as
a railwayman, spanning some thirty-five years on African Railways and culminating
with his appointments first as General Manager of the Sudan Railways and
then as General Manager of the East African Railways. Few men, he said, could
have his extensive knowledge and experience of the problems of building and
operating railways on that great continent. Sir James, of course, was still
very much involved in railways affairs, and it was undoubtedly a reflection
of the great esteem in which he was held throughout Africa that he was invited
by the Chairman of the Nigerian Railways Corporation to the First African
Railway Congress in Lagos last November to address delegates from fifteen
African nations.
Sykes, W.J.A. (Paper No. 642)
The electro-diesel locomotive. 40-67. Disc.: 67-94.
sixth Ordinary General Meeting of the Institution was held at the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 25th February 1963, at 17.30. The
President, Mr. J. F. Alcock, O.B.E., M.A., was in the Chair.
The idea of a dual power locomotive for the Southern really began to take
shape immediately after the last war. Areas identified (i) Wayside
sidings.(Pick-up freight working is a prominent feature of the Southern’s
operation, in which a very large number of wayside sidings are concerned.
Electrification of all these sidings would be most difficult to justify
economically, and in any case the provision of a conductor rail in a large
number, especially at sites to which traders and other members of the public
have access, would be most undesirable.); Dockside areas. (The provision
of any form of external contact system is obviously impracticable, especially
where cranes are employed.); Track possessions.Discussion: E.S. Cox (71-2);
J. Pelham Maitland (75); A.H. Emerson (75-7)
Kumar, D. (Paper No. 643).
Plain or roller bearings? An economic survey with particular reference to
the broad gauge I.R.S. 4-wheel wagon. 95-133. Disc.: 364-71.
Annual General Meeting of the Indian Centre was held in Lucknow on
19th April 1963 when Mr. E. W. Isaacs (Member), PLAIN OR ROLLER BEARINGS?
95 Member, Mechanical, Railway Board, was re-elected Chairman and Mr. K.
C. La11 (Member) Additional Member, Mechanical, Railway Board, was elected
Vice-chairman. The business of the Annual General Meeting also included a
proposal that a branch of the Indian Centre be opened at Lucknow where a
large number of railway mechanical engineering Officers have been posted.
The proposal was unanimously adopted. After the remaining business of the
meeting had been concluded, the Chairman introduced
Both from economic standpoint and reliability fitting roller bearings on
four-wheel wagons was justified as the present wagon or an improved version
will be required to operate on Indian Railways for several decades and it
may be prudent to make it reliable for the heavy duty and intensive traffic
demands of the future.
Journal No.292
Ridgway, S. (Paper No. 644)
The effect of change in motive power on the railway workshop. 151-201.
Ordinary General Meeting of the Institution was held at the lnstitution
of Mechanical Engineers on 25 March 1963 at 17. 30. The President, J.F. Alcock
was in the Chair.
Schur, T. (Paper No. 645)
Experience with diesel engines in railway traction. 203-82.
Following the conclusion of the business of the 52nd Annual General
Meeting of the Institution held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
on 22 April 1963, the Eighth Ordinary General Meeting of the 1962-63 Session
was held at 17.45 J.F. Alcock, President, was in the Chair.
Journal No. 293
Warder, S.B.
Presidential Address. 313-42.
Included linear induction motor and automatic train. Riddles gave
the Vote of Thanks.
Corbyn, D.B. (Paper No. 646)
Electric traction development and effect of semiconductor rectifiers.
343-64.
Meeting of Rhodesian Centre held in Bulawayo on 16 May 1962
Journal No 294
Henderson, J.C.
The Stanley Herbert Whitelegg Memorial Fund Travel Scholarship — 1963
award. 378-90.
Study of electric traction in both France and Germany, and diesel
electric traction on the SNFC and diesel hydraulic locomotives (especially
V160 and V200) types on the DB.
Fordham, P.J.S. (Paper No. 647)
Some aspects of electric and hydraulic drives in diesel locomotives;
390-412.
Presented by a Senior Contracts Engineer from the Traction Division
of Brush Electrical which compared the characteristics of the Western diesel
hydraulic locomotive with its Voith transmission with the Brush diesel electric
locomotive which became the Type 47 and with the Brush Falcon locomotive
which, like the disel hydraulics incorporated two Maybach MD655 diesel engines.
There are exploded diagrams for the latter two types. Perhaps the statement
which is most indicative that this was a knocking paper is the one about
the Warship hydraulic locomotives incorporating 2½ miles of wiring.
It does show, however, the simplicity and light weight of the bogies used
with the hydraulic drive.
Henley, E.D. (Paper No. 648)
Some of the uses of plastics in railway rolling stock. 413-45. Disc.:
445-57.
Includes some early use made by the LNER notably in the Perspex windows
of the beaver tail observation cars used on the Coronation train.
Most of the paper was associated with the use of glass reinforced plastics
(GRP) in body work both for locomotives and rolling stock,
Cites Paper No. 295 given by Percy. Lewis
Dale, Chief Chemist of LMS.
Koffman, J.L. and Jarvis, R.G. (Paper No.
649)
Air springs as applied to multiple-unit vehicles for heavy suburban services.
461-576.
Miller, T.C.B. (Paper No. 650)
Maintenance of diesel electric locomotives in service. 577-610. Disc.: 610-61..
Journal No.296.
Moore, I.G. (Paper No. 651)
Combined air and dynamic braking systems for railway vehicles, particularly
the new lightweight cars for the Toronto Transit Commission. 678-706. Disc.:
706-26.
Emerson, A.H. (Paper No. 652)
Operational experience and maintenance of electric locomotives. 727-788.
Disc.: 789-836.
AC system on London Midland Region: commissioning, maintenance, depot
design, faults, modifications, staff training, pantographs, main transformers,
tap changers, rectifiers mainly germanium semi-conductor, traction motors,
blowers, radiators, windscreen wipers, rotating windscreens, cab heaters,
bogie design and riding properties