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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 411

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carded Feed Pipe Furnishes Valuable Clue BANISHED from the boiler room when its job was taken overby a newer and sounder piece of metal, a worn-out section of feedpipe would have carried a vital bit of evidence away to the junkyard had not a Hartford inspector seen it just in time. Four yearsago,… … behind the boiler house. Suspecting the presence of caustic embrittle-ment, he immediately questioned the owner on the source and treat-ment of feed-water and cautioned him to notify The HartfordsChicago headquarters if leakage developed at the seams or rivets of anyboiler in the plant. From that…

Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions

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