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
Cowichan (steamship) Cowichan (steamship) Cowichan was a steamship which was operated in British Columbia under the ownership of the Union Steamship Company. "Cowichan" sank in 1925 following a collision with another ship. "Cowichan" was originally launched under the name "Cariboo". "Cowichan" comes from the Halkomelem word "Q(a)w-(a)can", which means "warm mountains". This is believed to refer to hills at the head of the Cowichan River. The tribe of the First Nations called "Cowichan" lived on southeast Vancouver Island. The popular name for the ship was "The Cow". "Cowichan" was designed specifically to serve the remote logging camps of coastal British Columbia. A