HANDYSIDE, Henry A treatise on an improved method for overcoming steep gradients on railways, read before the British Association in 1875, at Bristol. Bristol, John Wright (Printer) 1875
8vo. 24pp, folding wood-engraved frontis. Orig. decorative printed wrappers, a little grubby. Signed by Handyside on the final leaf. Account by its designer of a system for taking a line of railway through hilly country with frequently-occurring steep gradients. Handyside added a cable-drum, a second pair of cylinders and self-acting gripping struts to an ordinary locomotive, so that wherever necessary it could act as a stationary engine to haul the train up inclines. Handyside, who had been an engineer to the Government of Nelson, New Zealand, here describes and illustrates the modified locomotive built for him by Fox, Walker & Co. of the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol. This is the first edition; a second appeared in 1878.
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