Picture No | 11769959 |
Date | 1958 |
Description | Timken tapered roller bearing axleboxes - train |
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A recent innovation by British Timken Ltd - a tapered-roller-bearing wagon bearing unit for freight stock made suitable for high speed and replacing the old plain-bearing axlebox. Used by over 1000 British Railways 20-ton guards' brade vans and an increasing number of British Railways 21-ton hopper wagons.
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Source | Advertisement in The Tatler, 19 March 1958 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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