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smokebox

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smokebox [′smōk‚bäks]
(mechanical engineering)
A chamber external to a boiler for trapping the unburned products of combustion.


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Smokebox numberplates were affixed to the front of the locomotive and so there was only one per loco.
Instead, a stiff and chilling wind off the sea; a sense of slow but inexorable decay; hollow sounds of wind blowing through empty cabs and smokebox cavities, and a persistent, ghostly rattle and smack of corroded plates and brakevan doors.
 
 
 
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