Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock. Partly reprinted from "Engineering" (1920)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : Offices of "Engineering," 35 and 36, Beford Street, W.C.". · leaf 82
ach group had two slide-valves,one for the high-pressure, and one for the low-pressure,cylinders, and both were attached to one valve spindle andone reversing link.2 The engines worked up to 51 revolutions 1 The number of steam vessels belonging to the United Kingdom in1849 was only 1142, of… … mH WH H-i I* o CO02 PSM 36 A Pioneer in Water-Tube Boilers. per minute—-equal to a piston speed of 255 ft. per minute—and the maximum indicated horse-power was 256. Theengines were tested by the late Professor Macquorn Rankine,F.R.S., who certified that the coal consumption on trial was1.018 lb.…
