Forrester's
Locomotive, 1834.
In 1834 Messrs. Geo. Forrester
and Co. of Liverpool completed an engine which included some important
novelties of arrangement. It was a 6-wheeled engine with outside horizontal
cylinders. It had, however, outside frames and the drivers were driven by
connecting rods, acting on cranks, keyed upon the axles at a considerable
distance beyond the face of the wheels. The centre lines of the cylinders were
thus spread widely apart and as the wheels were not counterbalanced, the
unsteadiness even at moderate speed was very apparent.