traction engine in a sentence
Examples
- An attempt to build marine engines and traction engines to patents by Loftus Perkins was less successful.
- His payment for the job was a new front plate for the boiler of his traction engine.
- Although making locomotives was its main business, D�bs & Co also manufactured traction engines and steam cranes.
- The traffic on the railway began to decline with the introduction of traction engines and motor vehicles.
- This may be a reference to Teddy Boston, who had himself saved a traction engine from scrap.
- A traction engine would arrive at the site with the body, and would position it below the gantries.
- Traction engine rotor is connected with a gear train through the rigid clutch ( rubber cord shell ).
- By 1898 steam traction engine trains with up to four wagons were employed in military manoeuvres in England.
- The last of the traction engines was exported to South Africa in 1938 and is preserved in Johannesburg.
- The new pontoon proved strong enough to support loaded elephants and siege guns as well as military traction engines.