- The
Kylchap steam locomotive exhaust system was
designed and
patented by
French steam engineer André Chapelon,
using a second-stage
nozzle designed by...
- coal and
water were reduced. A
further design improvement was ****ing a
Kylchap double-chimney,
first on No. 4468
Mallard in
March 1938. The double-chimney...
-
needed for an
acceptably gentle taper. A
simultaneous development was the
Kylchap blastpipe,
combining the Kylälä
spreader by
Finnish engineer Kyösti Kylälä...
-
streamlined design.: 221 This
included a new, state-of-the-art
double Kylchap chimney and blastpipe,
allowing the
smoke to be
distributed more freely...
- Pacifics. However, with its
double chimney and
subsequent ****ing of a
double Kylchap exhaust in 1937,
Humorist continued to pose a
problem in this
regard and...
- gear arrangement. However, this came at the cost of
either discarding the
Kylchap exhaust or the self-cleaning
device in the smokebox, of
which the former...
-
other arrangements have been tried.
Towards the end of the
steam era the
Kylchap exhaust was po****r and used on the
Nigel Gresley-designed Mallard. Other...
- in
availability brought about in this
respect by the
application of the
Kylchap exhaust to
Gresley Pacifics in the
early 1960s J.J.G. Koopmans: The fire...
- for an LNER V2.
Andre Chapelon made a
significant improvement with his
Kylchap exhaust which incorporated a Kylälä
spreader (second
stage nozzle) and...
- (PO) and,
along with
Finnish Engineer Kyösti Kylälä,
jointly designed the
Kylchap exhaust system.
While his
principles met with scepticism, No. 3566, the...
