... COMPOSITE STATIONS STARTING TORQUE PERIODICITY POWER LONDON VALTELLINA BURGDORF THUN UK FRANCE SWITZERLAND 40 MORDEY AND JENKIN ON UECTRICAL TRACTION, [Minutes of 18 February, 1902. CHARLES HAWHSLEY, ]President, in the Chair. (Paper No. 3331.) Electrical Traction on Railways...

...,, andthus tosavefuel. The following advantages, which mill be discussed hereafter, are claimed for com- pound locomotives :- The use of higher steam-pressures. A more powerful locomotive. Additional power a t starting. Reduction of thewiredrawing action as the steam passes through the slide-valve...