Road Wheels with Plain Bearings

[Lynn Eades]

Yes Peter, As Al said, the original bogie wheel bearings are metric. 14 of them are 110 x 40 x 29 ( 6408?) and the front inners are 110 x 50 x 29 (6310) (from memory?)

BTW, your gen set looks great! and I wouldn't have any problems with you using good wheels.

[ajmac]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

BTW, your gen set looks great.

indeed it does, it was manufactured at the factory in which we still build gen sets today, a little larger though, upto 15MW and powered by Gas Turbines.

[listerdiesel]

Originally Posted by ajmac

indeed it does, it was manufactured at the factory in which we still build gen sets today, a little larger though, upto 15MW and powered by Gas Turbines.

Both engines are Ruston & Hornsby Lincoln, but the driven ends are both Mawdsley, Dursley, Gloucs.

The vertical diesel is a 1YB dynamometer set, supplied new in 1959 to Huddersfield Education Committee, the horizontal is a Ruston 1ZHR with a Lister Start-O-Matic alternator/starter, this was made by Mawdsleys as well. The engine came out of Abingdon Technical College.

Peter

[ajmac]

This is four Ruston Gas Turbine 'Tornado' Gen sets in Libya that I was working on a few years ago. All built in Lincoln at the old Ruston & Hornsby site. The locals would address you 'Mr Ruston' rather that learning your real name :-)

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by ajmac

The locals would address you 'Mr Ruston' rather that learning your real name :-)

If they knew what you were up to in your private life, they might have called you "Mr Rusty"