A pistol boiler is a design of steam boiler used in light steam tractors and overtype steam wagons. It is noted for the unusual shape of the firebox, a circular design intended to be self-supporting without the use of firebox stays.
Robey & Co. 'Express' steam tractor, with Robey's pistol boiler
The name "pistol boiler" derives from the smooth curve of the outer firebox flowing into the boiler barrel and a supposed resemblance to the stock of an early 19th-century pistol.
A pistolboiler is a design of steam boiler used in light steam tractors and overtype steam wagons. It is noted for the unusual shape of the firebox,...
There have been a vast number of designs of steam boiler, particularly towards the end of the 19th century when the technology was evolving rapidly. A...
Those made by Robey & Co used their standard steam wagon engine and pistolboiler fitted in a girder frame with rolls and a chain drive to produce a quick-reversing...
The Sentinel boiler was a design of vertical boiler, fitted to the numerous steam wagons built by the Sentinel Waggon Works. The boiler was carefully designed...
anticipated. It is known that there are but approximately 225 Collier pistols and long guns were made between 1819 and 1824, according to known serial...
armouring, road bridges, and pressure vessels including locomotive steam boilers and nuclear reactors. The original Ducol, or "D"-steel, is a manganese-silicon...
Saviours schoolgirl May Lewis is found with a serious head injury in the boiler room of the adjoining boys school, Kemble Martyrs. Father Brown discovers...
On 21 November 1939, a mine broke her keel, which damaged her engine and boiler rooms, as well as injuring 46 men, with one man later dying from his injuries...
flintlock pistol. At this, the Knight swings his morning star and spurs his horse to charge. The Pirate aims and fires, but misses. He fires a second pistol but...
The boiler was in poor condition and needed serious work, but Dibnah fell back on local knowledge and was eventually able to build a new boiler. Once...
AKA, along with Dakar and John Bradbury. Their first single release, "The Boiler", reached # 35 in the UK Singles Chart in 1982. Dakar performed on The Special...
throughout the factory to connect the different departments such as the boiler room, foundry, shipping and the lines to main railway stations. Sir Robert...
buildings. This team wore white overall suits, army hats, rubber boots, and pistols strapped to their sides. Despite the prison's status as a highly secure...
Blohm & Voss geared steam turbines and twelve oil-fired Wagner superheated boilers, which developed a total of 148,116 shp (110,450 kW), and yielded a maximum...
politicians and key social and cultural figures. "November 13 - Murder by pistol". Tudor Society. 13 November 2021. "Camden author says world's first assassination...
capturing him. Lucky Luke arrives in Desperado City, where two desperados, the Pistol Brothers, appear to be the source of local terror. They quickly confront...
com wrote "On the whole Paap is different from the regular Bollywood pot boilers. Its different, it's daring but, definitely not sinful." Won 2005: Stardust...
India was set up at Jamalpur Workshop. It also had a boiler workshop for repairing and building boilers. A 5 MVA captive power plant was also developed in...
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future cast member of American Restoration); an 18th-century flintlock pistol that needs authentication; a collection of comic books published from the...
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