Heritage – Rail – News
Restoration of McLaren Traction engine No. 767
The engine is at the stage where all of a sudden it will come together. Here is a pictorial with captions.
1515 – Rubberised rear wheel
1516 – As the boiler now stands – rear view
1518 – Newly constructed Tender
1520 – Rubberised front wheels
1522 – Rear wheel
1523 – Assembled crank shaft
1526 – Rear axle box
1528 – Steering worm
1529 – Tubes annealed and swagged with motion quadrants on the top of the tubes
1531 – Boiler – front view
1533 – Boiler cylinders
1534 – Smoke box tube plate
1535 – New bushes fitted on secondary shaft housing
1536 – Fire box
1539 – Secondary shaft
1540 – Rear suspension box
1543 – Speed selector rack & pinion
1545 – Speed selector arm
1547 – Differential
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