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
Cheakamus (steamship) Sound Maritime Historical Society for use as a floating headquarters and museum. However the society decided that the maintenance costs for the vessel would be too great and turned it over for scrapping. Cheakamus (steamship) Cheakamus was a steamship built in 1913 in North Vancouver, British Columbia. This ship was originally built as the "Cheslakee" in Scotland. After "Cheslakee" capsized in 1913, the hulk was raised, lengthened, and placed back into service as "Cheakamus". "Cheakamus" was named after the Cheakamus River and Cheakamus Canyon which are north of Howe Sound in British Columbia. The original Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish) name is Chiyakmesh