South African Class 15E 4-8-2 on 26 July 1992, while the following pictures illustrate some differences in appearance over the years. South African Class 15E 4-8-2 The South African Railways Class 15E 4-8-2 of 1935 was a steam locomotive. Between 1935 and 1937, the South African Railways placed forty-four Class 15E steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. The Class 15E 4-8-2 Mountain type mixed traffic steam locomotive was a refinement of the Classes 15C and 15CA. It was designed by A.G. Watson, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1929 to 1936, and incorporated many of
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