Talk:Bissel truck

Merge of Pony truck
Two articles duplicating the same topic. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:15, 1 August 2017 (UTC)


 * According to Jackson, a pony truck is "a single axle truck placed before or behind the driving wheels of a steam loco," whereas a Bissell truck is a "two- or four-wheel truck in which the pivoting point is located at some distance from its transverse centre." Meanwhile, other sources seem to imply that the Bissell truck was just the first type of pony truck; others being developed later such as the "Bissell-Smith truck". However, Bissell also developed later a four-wheel truck, which seems to back up Jackson. More research is needed, but at this point, it seems that the first two-wheel Bissell truck was a type of pony truck; but that there was also a four-wheel Bissell truck which was not a pony truck. Is there a generic name for the four-wheel variants? --Bermicourt (talk) 13:53, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Support merge, on the grounds that Pony truck is a predemoninantly historic term, best describe as a section within the more modern Bissel truck page. I accept that the definition of Pony truck is broader, but WP:COMMONNAME suggest that this should necessarily be the most important fact determining the page name. Klbrain (talk) 05:42, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Steam from boiler to the pony
As far as I can tell there must be some ingenuity transferring steam from the boiler to the pony. We are talking high pressure here, and the 1860's did not have hoses (like hydraulic hoses) which could bend and still transfer high pressure.

Is it the pair of inclined planes which have holes for steam tubes, matching even when the pony is in a turn? d-axel (talk) 11:36, 9 June 2019 (UTC)