S.M. Car Syndicate: Stand 69.
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Those of our readers who followed the records of the 1907 trials promoted by the It.A.O. will recall that of the few steamers entered one of them, the St. Pancras, did remarkably good work. The name of St. Pancras, however, has of late years been little heard in steamwagon circles, the truth of the matter being that the vehicle is no longer built under that ink:me, but is now known as the S.M. wagon, and is built by the S.M. CRT Syndicate, Ltd., of llythe Road, Willesden Junction. Practically no change has been made since the days of the trials to which we refer.
The wagon is still made w ith the St. Pancras veitical boiler, fee-ding steam to a horizontal compound engine that is slung underneath the frame in a mid position on the chassis, the drive being through a two-speed-and-reverse gear, which is enclosed inside the crankcase, and finally through side chains to the cast-steel back wheels. The front axle and the whole of the forecarriage is arranged to tilt so as to give a three-point suspension to the entire vehicle, in this way enabling it to surmount obstacles that would otherwise set up disturbing stresses in the main frame and probably in the engine and other vital parts of the structure. Visitors should note these points.