Joyeux Anniversaires

[L'homme du pire caddy]

Aujourd'hui, c'est le tour de great john timber !!!

Meuh, j'ai raté ça...

Bon anniversaire et à bientôt !!!


Pierre.

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[L'homme du pire caddy]

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Pour un des héros du jour : il se reconnaîtra...

PME A H.jpg (35.13 Kio) Vu 1964 fois

GERMAN PREDECESSOR TO THE RAIL ZEPPELIN.

"This photo reveals a test prototype of the "Dringos" locomotive, patented by Dr.-Ing. Otto Steinitz (front left in the photograph) and assembled under license by the Luftfahrt Company in Grünewald, a suburb of Berlin. It had an aero engine and a two-bladed propellor at each end. The locomotive made its first successful test run on May 11, 1919 from Grünewald to Beelitz, about 30 miles there and back, carrying various government railway officials and parliament members - about 40 people in total. The locomotive easily sustained a speed of 60 mph, limited mostly by concerns about the primitive chassis and braking system of the prototype.

The exhaust stub of the engine at the other end can be seen top right against the gantry.

Unfortunately, no detail is visible in the dark parts of the photo, but a little information can be extracted from the picture. The engine is a six-cylinder in-line model, with a total absence of silencing on the exhaust stub. One thing that can be asserted with confidence is that this was not a quiet machine.

The test locomotive was built from an old railway freight wagon using a aircraft engines originally contracted for military use. Part of the motivation for this scheme was finding an acceptable civilian use for these engines that had been contracted for the war effort. Subsequent post-WW1 requirements that Germany destroy its stockpile of and manufacturing capacity for military aircraft parts were definitely a factor in diminishing the interest of the corporate backers - the engine manufacturers. The government railroad interests apparently had little enthusiasm for the concept all along.

It is notable that this project was at least ten years ahead of the more widely known Berlin-Hamburg trials of the Kruchenberg propellor locomotive known as the "Rail Zeppelin".

Source : http://greyfalcon.us/FRANZ%20KRUCKENBER ... PPELIN.htm


Pierre.

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[Zébu]

Woups !
Bon anniversaire à tous les autres.

[CF7C]

Je m'a reconnu, merci Pierre

[pelican]

Aujourd'hui, c'est FrktLille (101)

101 ans... faut le fer ... et même le chemin tout entier !!
un joyeux anniversaire !!

[232 u 1]

à l'ancien du forum : FrktLille

[La Mouette]

Bon anniv ma flêche !!

[pelican]

à notre Fléchounette !!!
37 ans ... pfiouuu .. je le croyais plus jeune ...

[Beyer-Garrat]

Bon anniversaire au "jeune modéliste au talent très prometteur"

[bernardhenri]

Que 37! Il le cache bien!

Bon anniversaire!

[Zébu]

Comme Bernard le dit !
37 ! Manque pas un chouïa ?
Bon anniversaire !

[232 u 1]

Bon anniversaire Flèche des Cévennes (-50% sur l'age?)

[Kazh du]

Serait il né une année bisextile?

[Douglas]

Merci à tous!

[La Mouette]

Wha putain la brochette, ils peuvent se faire quasiment une UE de PMe à eux 4 !!

Bon anniv !!

Gilles