Gas turbine locomotive turbine locomotive to be used on British Railways. The locomotive was to be built by the North British Locomotive Company and the turbine would be supplied by C. A. Parsons and Company. According to Sampson, the plan was to use indirect heating. The pulverized coal would be burned in a combustion chamber and the hot gases passed to a heat exchanger. Here, the heat would be transferred to a separate body of compressed air which would power the turbine. Essentially, it would have been a hot air engine using a turbine instead of a piston. Robertson shows a diagram which
Union Steamship Company of British Columbia Northland Navigation in 1962. The line had a good safety record in an age before satellites and radar. The "Chehalis" sank off Brockton Point in 1913 with a loss of life; the "Cheslakee" capsized on Texada Island; and the "Comox" collided with a ship in fog in Malaspina Strait. It should be remembered that this is over 50 years and a service of dozens of ships. Union Steamship Company of British Columbia The Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was a pioneer firm on coastal British Columbia. It was founded in November 1889 by John Darling, a director of the