Meanings
- not comparableConstructed with only welded joints, without bolts or rivets being used.
The two new steel girders to carry this track—which are of all-welded construction, and with diaphragms fixed in position weighed in all 26 tons—were next brought forward and placed in position.
1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 7081 more example
In accordance with S.R. practice since the days of Bulleid, the design of components employs welding extensively - in fact the smokebox, motion and slide bar brackets and frame stretchers are all-welded structures. [p163] The most ambitious of these items were undoubtedly the all-welded boilers for the short-lived and much-discussed "Leader" 0-6-6-0s; [...]
1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 160, 163
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