Thirty Years At The Throttle

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Ralph Thompson
July/August 1966
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The lack of a power takeoff also limited the use of the steam tractor and instead of an old smokey lantern to move by or check steam and water, how easy one could have installed a car generator and storage battery, had they been available.

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Well, friends, I could go on and on writing of happenings that caused an engineer to give fifty horsepower one day, and half as much the next owing to unfavorable conditions. But unless the one who reads this has stood behind a throttle, with the responsibility of watching out for the safety of those at the machine he is powering, the constant attention that must be given the water level, steam pressure, bearings and all the various things vital to safe, economical operation, it would be drab reading, but to you who have experienced some of the things I have mentioned, I hereby dedicate this narrative.

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