South African Class 19A 4-8-2 South African Class 19A 4-8-2 The South African Railways Class 19A 4-8-2 of 1929 was a steam locomotive. In 1929, the South African Railways placed 36 Class 19A steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. Five of them were later reboilered and reclassified to Class 19AR. The Class 19A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotive was a later modified version of the successful Class 19 which had been introduced a year earlier. Thirty-six Class 19A engines were delivered by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) of Winterthur in 1929, numbered in the range from 675 to 710.
Minim (palaeography) large diamond-shaped "finials" at the top and bottom, such as in "textualis quadrata", the most decorated form of Gothic. "Textualis sine pedibus", literally "textualis without feet", has minims with no finials at all, while "textualis rotunda" has round finials. Minim (palaeography) In palaeography, a minim is a short, vertical stroke used in handwriting. The word is derived from the Latin "minimum", meaning "least" or "smallest". A minim is the basic stroke for the letters i, m, n, and u in uncial script and later scripts deriving from it. Parts of other letters are based on minims as well: when a