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 (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