1 64 Book of Locomotives 



in their splendidly painted steeds. They 

 used spare minutes in giving the loco- 

 motives a rub over, and it is certain that, 

 in the sheds, very little more time was 

 given to those engines if any than at 

 present when economy is the strict order 

 of the day. 



The " Gladstone " is intended ultimately 

 for the South Kensington Museum, when 

 the necessary extensions have been made 

 there. This splendid machine was built in 

 1882, at a time when the six- wheeled engine 

 was still the pre-dominant wheel type, and 

 before the leading bogie was extensively 

 used. Stroudley never would use the bogie, 

 and it says much for the care he took in 

 the design of his engines that many of them 

 are still in service, some of them being of 

 the " Gladstone " class. Stroudley died in 

 1889, so his machines are a long-lived race. 

 Some of the innovations which he made, 

 or ideas which he thought worthy of per- 

 petuation, are still widely used ; one of them 

 is especially noticeable about the " Glad- 

 stone " the copper-capped chimney; a 



