QUOTE (dwb @ 14 Nov 2007, 19:50) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Could that have been due to the cost of licensing a patent?
David
No.
Robert Garbe, responsible at the time, believed that many of the "southern" design elements, such as 4-cyl. compound drive, or superheaters, were humbug. He favoured an efficient, economical (read: cheap) design for "his" Prussian engines.
Garbe´s "evil spirit" carried forward into the time when the first "Einheitslokomotiven" were designed and tested: the class 01 had 2-cyl. drive, the class 02 4-cyl.-drive, but was designed with the assistance of a Prussian factory (Borsig, iirc) that had next to zero experience with 4-cylinder engines. The few 02s that had been built were later converted into 01s...
David
No.
Robert Garbe, responsible at the time, believed that many of the "southern" design elements, such as 4-cyl. compound drive, or superheaters, were humbug. He favoured an efficient, economical (read: cheap) design for "his" Prussian engines.
Garbe´s "evil spirit" carried forward into the time when the first "Einheitslokomotiven" were designed and tested: the class 01 had 2-cyl. drive, the class 02 4-cyl.-drive, but was designed with the assistance of a Prussian factory (Borsig, iirc) that had next to zero experience with 4-cylinder engines. The few 02s that had been built were later converted into 01s...
