Trailer for Clayton Steam Truck

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A Sample Trailer for the Clayton Steam Truck.
Complete with PDF Drawings

From the Model Engineer 1978:
THE WELL-KNOWN FIRM of Clayton and Shuttleworth
Ltd. built their first road engine in 1862, and
continued building vehicles for seventy years. They
adopted the above title in 1894 and eventually
occupied a 100-acre site in Lincoln employing 5000
people and including a steel and iron foundry,
forge, boiler and erecting shops, all using power
from their own generating station.
Clayton Wagons Ltd. of the Titanic Works, Lincoln,
was formed after the First World War as a
subsidiary of Clayton and Shuttleworth Ltd., in
order to concentrate on the production of steam
wagons. From the outset it was decided to build
both overtypes and undertypes. For the benefit of
the newcomer these terms refer to the manner in
which the engine is mounted in the wagon. An
overtype has the engine mounted on a locomotive
type boiler as in a traction engine, whereas the
undertype has it slung beneath the chassis, usually
with a vertical boiler mounted in the front of the
cab. The latter arrangement gives more payload
area for the same vehicle length, but results in long
steam and exhaust pipe runs. However, this form
of layout eventually resulted in sophisticated
wagons with multi-cylindered engines, gearbox
transmissions and shaft drives.