Ill 



A LOCOMOTIVE THAT FEEDS ITSELF 



THAT is a rather far-fetched title to give 

 to the new self-trimming tender for loco- 

 motives which the well known locomotive 

 builders, Messrs. Beyer, Peacock & Co., of 

 Manchester, have recently introduced. But 

 any fireman who had sweated at the shovel, 

 and then had to work backwards as much 

 as twenty feet to get at his coal in a fast- 

 emptying tender, would agree that the new 

 tender at least placed the locomotive's food 

 within easy reach of that insatiable mouth 

 the furnace door. 



It will be found that the ordinary kind of 

 tender is employed, but that a rounded 

 tank arrangement, with several doors, is 

 placed where the coal is usually found. 

 These doors allow of the fuel being shot 

 into the big circular hopper, which is built 



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