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| Ron Jarvis, Ivan Andrews | |
Ronald Guy Jarvis
Born 5 November 1911 in Harpenden and was educated at St George's
School thereat, before becoming a priviledged apprentice at Derby Works.and
died in Llandudno on 2 September 1994. Ron Jarvis had a very interesting
life and railway career which included working with Tommy Hornbuckle on the
Stanier three-car DMU, the preparation of 8F locomotives for service during
WW2. He had served his apprenticeship at Derby under H.G. Ivatt at same time
as H.A.V. Bulleid. Formerly Chief Technical Assistant at Derby (he represented
the LMR on the committee which investigated the output from the Interchange
trials of 1948 and represented Southern Region (Brighton Works) on team which
designed British Railways Standard locomotives. His input was greatest on
the class 4 2-6-4T and class 4 4-6-0 designs, although he was involved in
designing the 9F and the Franco-Costi boiler variant. He was also responsible
for the re-design of the "rebuilt" Merchant Navy class and Bulleid light
Pacifics. He also modified the front-end of the Maunsell 2-6-0s. He was deeply
involved in th preservation of railway records, especially those at Derby,
and worked as a volunteer on the Festiniog Railway. He is buried at Llanbedr.
The Chackfield biography is excellent althoguh
it does not appear (not in index) cover his work on exhaust steam injectors
acknowledged by Metcalfe page 117..
Papers
Jarvis, R.G. The railways and coal. J.
Instn Loco. Engrs, 1952, 42, 390-404. Discussion: 404-24.
[Contribution 515]
British Railways consumed 15 million tons at a cost of £40m.
Noted testing to make savings, plus some anodyne comments on poppet valves
and high pressure boilers. On page 414 made some observations on experiments
with pulverized fuel.
Chackfield,
J.E. Ron Jarvis: from Midland Compound to the HST. 2004.
Excellent biography which includes Jarvis's involvement (Chapter 3)
in assembling 8F locomotives in neutral Turkey during WW2 and in the receipt
of them at the port of Iskenderun. Chapter 6 reccounts the return of 8Fs
from the Canal Zone to the LMS following WW2.
Formerly with English Electric (Cox: Locomotive panorama 1). He developed the mobile testing units (essentially electrical generators) with dynamometer car following the work of Prof. Nordmann of the Reichsbahn.
Papers
The development of instruments for measuring the performance of steam locomotives
with the mobile testing plant. Trans. Soc. Instrum. Technol., 1957,
9, 45-60. Disc. : 60-1.16 illus., 10 diagrs., plan. Bibliog.
Heat losses of locomotive boilers. Engineering, 1955, 180,
209-11. illus., 6 tables. (REA 9670)
Tests of one of the class on the mobile test plant.
The mobile testing plant of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Proc.
Instn. mech. Engrs., 1948, 158, 450-63. Disc.: 463-76+ 6 plates,
22 illus., 14 diagrs., 2 plans, table. Bibliog.
A dynamometer car plus a set of coaches equipped with electric generators
which acted as a variable "load" for the locomotive being
tested
Stresses in locomotive coupling and connecting rods. J. Instn Loco
Engrs, 1952, 42,. 533 - 603
Comment on others papers
Sanford, D.W. The relationship
between smokebox and boiler proportions. J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1944,
34, 40-53. Disc. : 53-76. 5 diagrs., 2 tables(Paper
451).
Andrews.. (55-6) commented upon smokebox efficiency and its
measurement.
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