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
Camosun (steamship) captain failed to give the order to reduce speed in time, and so "Camosun" crashed through a dock at the Rivers Inlet cannery, going right up into the cannery building itself. In 1935 "Camosun" was sold for scrap. Camosun (steamship) Camosun was a steamship built in 1904 in Paisley, Scotland which served in British Columbia. "Camosun" was the first passenger-freighter ship ordered by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. The vessel was intended to compete against the ships of two rival concerns, of the Canadian Pacific, and and of the Boscowitz Company. Construction on the vessel began in the