• Paxman was a major British brand of diesel engines. Ownership has changed on a number of occasions since the company's formation in 1865, and the brand...
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  • The Paxman Valenta, also known as Y3J and RP200, is a diesel fuelled internal combustion engine formerly made by Paxman in Colchester, England. It was...
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  • fitted with Paxman VP185 engines, however the majority retained Valentas into the 21st century. With the Class 43s in need of new engines in the mid-2000s...
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  • The Paxman Hi-Dyne engine was a form of experimental diesel engine developed for rail transport use by the British engine makers Paxman of Colchester...
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  • Promotions, a video game reissue and compilation publisher Paxman (engines), originally Davey, Paxman & Davey, Engineers latterly part of English Electric and...
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    Blackstone & Co (category Diesel engine manufacturers)
    Blackstone & Company. In 1988, General Electric Company plc merged its Paxman (engines), Ruston and Mirrlees Blackstone diesels businesses with the Alsthom...
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    locomotive as the Class 17. Its low engine covers required the use of a pair of Paxman 6ZHXL six-cylinder horizontal engines, which had been intended for powering...
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    given the nameplate "Edward Paxman". During the late 1990s twenty-five HST power cars were re-engined with Paxman VP185 engines in order to improve fuel...
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    running gear strained the supply position so later Mk2 had two Paxman diesel engines of 500 hp each. It was apparent now that LCTs would be required...
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  • it was intended as a successor to Paxman's existing medium-speed engine, the direct injection YH. High-speed engines offered higher power-to-weight ratios...
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    Type 1 had low engine covers and a central cab to give better vision. However the Clayton required a redesign of the reliable Paxman engines from the earlier...
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    purchased some of its Class 25, 4-8-4 engines from the company between 1953 and 1955. These successful engines with various in-service modifications survived...
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  • the well-known Paxman diesel engine company of Colchester in Essex. In the later stages of the war, Paxman built 4,000 diesel engines that powered all...
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    at 3,547 GRT. The Paxman engines in the first batch had proved to be problematic, so BC Ferries had Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines installed in these...
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    V18 engine is a rare configuration and is primarily used in large diesel engines running at low operating speeds. These large V18 diesel engines have...
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    Richard. "The Blockade Runners". www.paxmanhistory.org.uk. [[Paxman (engines)[|Paxman Diesels]]. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved...
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    suffered problems with the Paxman engines, these were worse on Class 16 because inadequate ventilation resulted in frequent engine seizures. Another problem...
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    The locomotive had four main Paxman 12RPH 12-cylinder engines, each producing 500 brake horsepower at 1,500 rpm. Each engine was connected to the gearbox...
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  • Vehicles powered by MTU engines Diesel engines were built in the 1960s under the Maybach name, later engines were built under the MTU name. Bombardier...
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    decks, causing cracks. At least one cutter had warping so severe; its engines were no longer fully seated, while another ship's fuel tanks were deformed...
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    gives a compact floor layout for an engine of such power. Willans engines were not the first high-speed engines for electricity generation, but they...
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    500 kW) input, hence the need for two engines. D830 Majestic was equipped with two Paxman YJXL Ventura engines rated at 1,200 hp (890 kW), each as a potential...
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    to the engine designation should it be equipped. More revisions saw the creation of the Mark III engines in 1962. Unlike other comparable engines (and unusually...
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    Daimler-Benz, and Paxman. Subsequent improvements in technology made feasible the use of turbochargers on smaller engines that ran at higher engine speeds, so...
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  • part of GEC. Since the 1930s the Paxman company's main business has been the production of diesel engines. Paxman engines are world-famous. They are used...
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    work until 1965. It mainly built shunting engines for the British market, but also built main line engines for overseas customers. Steam locomotives were...
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    Central sections), 750 V DC (Western section) or from their Paxman 6YJXL 'Ventura' diesel engine, downrated to 650 hp in order to extend service intervals...
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    original locomotive were retained. It had a Davey Paxman 6-cylinder 400 hp (298 kW) at 750 rpm engine (later converted to 300 hp (224 kW) and a Haslam...
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  • pre-TOPS period built by the North British Locomotive Company with a Paxman engine. Eight locomotives were built and they were numbered D2700-D2707. River...
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    engine-generators, and machines with their engines built in) displaced most use of portable engines. In developing countries today, portable engines still...
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