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IT is with much pleasure we welcome this valuable addition to the literature of locomotive engineering—a subject seldom dealt with in text-books, and one which depends more on the results of experience than on theory as usually set forth in our technical schools. An author, therefore, in a position to deal with the subject in a satisfactory manner must of necessity have had a railway experience of no ordinary kind. In fact he must have gone through the mill in the form of the shops, works-management, and finally as locomotive superintendent. The author of this volume fills these requirements exactly, consequently we are not disappointed with his work.
A Manual of Locomotive Engineering.
By William Frank Pettigrew; with a selection of American and Continental Engines, by Albert F. Ravenshear, B.Sc., Whit. Sch. Pp. 430. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1899.)
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LOCKYER, N. A Manual of Locomotive Engineering. Nature 60, 193–194 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060193a0
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