Talk:Ruston & Hornsby

Article title
Is this under the right title or should it be renamed or/and split into the various companies involved ?


 * The actual company titles would be better, as the current one is rather clumsy (and not at all intuitive!) Will take a while to sort out all the redirects!
 * EdJogg (talk) 01:15, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

How about a gallery section Edjogg ? as another photos has been added after you pruned the list ?


 * I'm not a great fan of gallery sections as they have a tendency to grow. Also, I prefer individual photos to a gallery as they may be linked to the relevant text (in many cases). I think the WP policies suggest similar usage is preferred.
 * The current set of photos is now at the limit of what we can have with the current text, but it shows a range of different products (albeit with two NG locos). I wouldn't suggest any action until the next photo is added, and then it may be sufficient to pick the better photos.


 * We have a Commons link to Ruston locomotives, but there should be a commonscat for all of the products of the company, and that would provide a home for the excess photos.
 * EdJogg (talk) 01:15, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Layout and structure needs work but a bit too busy to sort out - BulldozerD11 (talk) 20:57, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

This article
Speaking as the son and grandson of two men who both worked for Ruston between 1920 - 1970 (my father was Chief Development Engineer), the mangling of this article, the exclusion of vast amounts og historical information (such as the specific information about the Matilda Tank, the revolutionary YD7 diesel train power unit and the Ruston car ) is nothing less than bloody insult to Ruston and a snub to the engineering genius of this company. Rustons led the way in most fields in entered into, all the way to the Gas Turbine era. Rustons, for example, were the first company in the world to put a glass port in the side of a diesel engine and then film it with a high speed movie camera to study flame swirl, from which they developed the principles of diesel head crown shape still used today.

This article is a sham, a pathetic, worthless attempt, and makes a mockery of Rustons in the way it ignores and fails to mention any of Rustons innovations and inventions. But then, i suspect thats the wikipedia anti-english bias. Never admit anyone other than americans ever invented anything, eh ?

Call this an Encyclopedia? Encyclopedias are supposed to educate you, but you'll learn nothing useful about Rustons here.

Utterly disgusting, you should be ashamed of yourselves. And a personal insult to my family and the city of Lincoln.

Lincolnshire Poacher (talk) 22:13, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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Toodyaypedia article QR code in place Elrebe56 (talk) 07:58, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Ruston Hornsby Heavy Oil Engines
Ruston Hornsby also manufactured "heavy oil" (diesel) engines used for power generation in places where mains electric power had not reached. The example I have knowledge of is in the 1920's the Marconi company was building a number of Short Wave transmitting stations in the UK and these were all located in rural areas with no mains electricity. To generate power for domestic use and transmitter operation various combinations of 90HP 3 cylinder and 200HP 4 cylinder "heavy oil" engines were installed to provide primary power sources. The R&H engines were coupled to 400Volt dc generators which in turn drove motor/generator sets to produce the various voltages required for domestic use (240Vac) and transmitter operation (several voltages up to 10kV). These engines were in use until the 1950's when they were superseded by more modern engines, only required for standby purposes by that time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.2.253 (talk) 13:32, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 10 July 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

Ruston (engine builder) → Ruston & Hornsby – This company's history consists of one merger after another followed by name changes so there is no perfect article name here. The current name seems awkward and the proposed name is both a WP:NATURAL disambiguation and comes closer to being WP:COMMONNAME.

Within Wikipedia editors show high regard for the proposed name as there are more than a hundred articles pointing to the article through the Ruston & Hornsby redirect and, even amongst articles pointing directly to Ruston (engine builder), many display that link as "Ruston & Hornsby" for readers (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Off Wikipedia it's even more stark, with the following results on Google Advanced Search: the phrase "Ruston & Hornsby" + "engine" gets 32,700 hits (link) while "Ruston" + "engine" without "Hornsby" gets only 389 (link). RevelationDirect (talk) 23:57, 10 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:39, 18 July 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Note If this nomination is successful, I'll submit Category:Ruston (engine builder), which I just created, for speedy renaming to match. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:59, 10 July 2022 (UTC)