If you admire the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco, you’ve probably admired ... early 1930s and told railway execs he wanted to design locomotives. Loewy’s T-1 steam engine was the ...

The role of design in the new commercial world was ... The irony is that a deco locomotive gained no speed from its streamlined carapace. It was all for show, to provide an illusion of rapid ...

Engines and train cars in streamlined, industrial Art Deco designs appeared throughout ... back geometry to create sleek-looking, functional locomotives. Henry Dreyfus created the famed New ...

Glamour: the foyer of the Strand Palace Hotel in the 1930s In Art Deco, design merges seamlessly ... bathrooms, cars, locomotives, factories on the Great West Road and Radio City Hall, Art Deco ...

The Fell differential gearbox. All diesel locomotive designs struggle with the problem of transmitting the huge torque required to start a fully loaded train at low speeds, and because of the huge ...

Hopes are high for the return of a historic steam locomotive for February's big Tremains Art Deco Weekend. A group of Central Hawke's Bay specialist firefighters have offered a "plan B" to event ...