- 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 4468
Mallard in
March 1938. The double-chimney...
- 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...
- (PO) and,
along with
Finnish Engineer Kyösti Kylälä,
jointly designed the
Kylchap exhaust system.
While his
principles met with scepticism, No. 3566, the...
- 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...
-
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...
-
maintenance on 21
February 1942. Sir
Nigel Gresley gained its
double chimney and
Kylchap double blastpipe on 13
December 1957. 60007 also
gained AWS
equipment on...
- with
Kylchap exhausts.
These so-called 'Super V2s' were
reckoned to be
fully equal in
performance to the
larger Pacifics. However,
plans to fit
Kylchap chimneys...
- for an LNER V2.
Andre Chapelon made a
significant improvement with his
Kylchap exhaust which incorporated a Kylälä
spreader (second
stage nozzle) and...
