South African Class 12A 4-8-2 be very successful engines which performed well, with low repair costs. Modifications in design of details after entering service were negligible. None of the SAR Class 12A or Class 12AR locomotives were sold into industrial service, but between 1947 and 1953 eight Class 12A locomotives, similar to the unreboilered SAR locomotives but without superheaters, were built new for industrial service by NBL. The builders, years built, works numbers, reboilering particulars and original tender types are listed in the table. South African Class 12A 4-8-2 The South African Railways Class 12A 4-8-2 of 1919 was a steam locomotive. Between 1919 and
Minim (religious order) Minim (religious order) The Minims (also called the Minimi or Order of Minims, abbreviated O.M.) are members of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The Order soon spread to France, Germany and Spain, and continues to exist today. Like the other mendicant Orders, there are three separate components, or Orders, of the movement: the friars, contemplative nuns and a Third Order of laypeople who live in the spirit of the Order in their daily lives. At present there are only two fraternities of the Minim tertiaries; both are in Italy.