Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1904 — A Historic Locomotive. [ARTICLE]

A Historic Locomotive.

The Novelty, one of the three locomotives constructed over seventy years ago as a result of a competition promoted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway company, has just been discovered at Rainhill, Lancashire, says the London Express. The three engines which took part In the 1830 triala were the Rocket, constructed by Stephenson; the Sans Pareil, by Harkworth, and the Novelty by Masers. Brtithwaite & Erlccson. The Rocket obtained the premium of fSOO as the most suitable locomotive to run on the line, having attained a speed of twinty-nine miles per hour. The greatest speed of the Sans Pared was less than twenty-three miles and the Novelty had covered only three miles when the joints of the boiler gave way. At that time the Rainhill Gas and Water company’s premises, which ad: join the railway at Rainhill station, were occupied by Mr. Ericsson ns engineering wtrks, Ericsson and Melling being friends. The former left the Novelty there after its failure to gain the prize. The Rocket and the Sans Pareil are both in South Kensington museum, but the whereabouts of the Novelty could not be traced until recently, when It was found still working as a-stationary engine, the wheels having been removed. This interesting relic will, in all probability, be placed side by side with Its contemporaries at South Kensington.