Author:Ernest Leopold Ahrons

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Ernest Leopold Ahrons (1866–1925)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. British engineer and author on railway locomotives. Some of his early work was written under the psudonym ‘Meteor’.

Works

Books

• The Development of British Locomotive Design (1914).
• Repairing of Locomotives (1920).
• The Steam Railway Locomotive (1920).
• Lubrication of Locomotives (1921).
• Steam Locomotive Construction and Maintenance (1921).
• Steam Engine Valves and Valve Gears (1921).

Papers for engineering institutions

• The internal disturbing forces in and balancing of locomotives (with special reference to three- and four-cylinder engines) (1914).

Posthumous collections of above

• The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825–1925 (1927). Based on articles published in The Engineer magazine.
• Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century 6 volumes (1951–1954); Leslie Lewis Asher (ed.) Based on articles published in The Railway Magazine