Clayton Steam Truck

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35 kg Model of the Clayton Steam Truck With PDF comple Drawings From The Model Engineer 1978: THE WELL-KNOWN FIRM of Clayton and Shuttleworth Ltd. built their first road engine in 1862, and continued building vehicles for seventy years. They adopted the above title in 1894 and eventually occupied a 100-acre site in Lincoln employing 5000 people and including a steel and iron foundry, forge, boiler and erecting shops, all using power from their own generating station. Clayton Wagons Ltd. of the Titanic Works, Lincoln, was formed after the First World War as a subsidiary of Clayton and Shuttleworth Ltd., in order to concentrate on the production of steam wagons. From the outset it was decided to build both overtypes and undertypes. For the benefit of the newcomer these terms refer to the manner in which the engine is mounted in the wagon. An overtype has the engine mounted on a locomotive type boiler as in a traction engine, whereas the undertype has it slung beneath the chassis, usually with a vertical boiler mounted in the front of the cab. The latter arrangement gives more payload area for the same vehicle length, but results in long steam and exhaust pipe runs. However, this form of layout eventually resulted in sophisticated wagons with multi-cylindered engines, gearbox transmissions and shaft drives.