Bulleid Firth Brown wheel
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The Bulleid Firth Brown wheel was a locomotive wheel developed for the Southern Railway in the late 1930s. It was a disc wheel, in contrast to the usual spoked wheels in general use on British railway
Bulleid Firth Brown (BFB) wheel
Battle of Britain class 34053 Sir Keith Park
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, or "flat tops", are air-smoothed 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives designed for
Bulleid Firth Brown wheel
…Merchant Navy class of Pacific locomotives. He later used them on all subsequent designs: the Q1 "austerity class" in 1942; his Light Pacifics (the West Country and Battle of Britain classes) in 1945; and his Leader class in 1946. The pacifics also used a similar design of BFB for the non-driving carrying wheels…
Unrebuilt 34067 Tangmere at Salisbury in July 1963
Rebuilt 34100 Appledore at Westbury in June 1966
The distinctive Bulleid Firth Brown wheels, seen here on 34072 257 Squadron
34016 Bodmin taking water at Alton