This included the former diesel businesses of English Electric, Mirrlees Blackstone, Napier & Son, Paxman, and Ruston.

The engine is an 8 cylinder, 145 litre Mirrlees Blackstone 8MB275T diesel traction engine ( 275 mm cylinder diameter ); the Mirrlees engine was one of the most fuel efficient available at the time ( 189g of fuel per kWhr ), but relatively heavy ; low cylinder count for rated power was expected to result in lower maintenance costs.

Other railway engineering assets were acquired, including Westinghouse Brake & Signal and the engine builder Mirrlees Blackstone, which came with the Brush businesses.

They were a six coupled ( 0-6-0 wheel arrangement ) locomotive, fitted with a Mirrlees TLDT6 engine of with diesel-electric transmission via two Brush traction motors.

* Brush Traction-offered a locomotive powered by either a Mirrlees or Ruston engine, and used separately-excited ( Sepex ) traction control, as previously tested on the Class 58.

The engine was a higher-powered development of the Mirrlees engine previously fitted experimentally to British Rail Class 37 nos.

This was replaced in the 1880s by the steam beam engine, itself replaced in 1924 by the powerful Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day Diesel.

The Mirrlees engine remains in working order, and is demonstrated to interested visitors on several days throughout the year.

Mirrlees optimal income tax is a detailed theoretical model of the optimum progressive income tax along these lines.

The CUHK has a great achievement in physical science and mathematics and is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize Laureates serving as professors, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao ( Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 2009 ).

In 1948, Mirrlees moved to South Africa and remained there until 1963, when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).

Mirrlees ' 600-line modernist poem, Paris: A Poem, published in 1918 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, was the subject of considerable study by scholar Julia Briggs, and is considered by some literary critics to have had an influence on the work of her friend, T. S. Eliot, and on that of Virginia Woolf.

Sandeep Parmar is currently writing a biography of Mirrlees as well.

Mirrlees also discovered that the line of the Bonds of Peckham bears the family motto " The World is Not Enough ", which Fleming appropriated for Bond's own family.

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees ( born 5 July 1936 ) is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Mirrlees is also co-creator, with MIT Professor Peter A. Diamond of the Diamond-Mirrlees Efficiency Theorem, developed in 1971.

Mirrlees is emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mirrlees is a member of Scotland's Council of Economic Advisers.

The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees will be published by Fyfield Books ( Carcanet Press ) in 2011 ( edited by Sandeep Parmar ).

Clute writes that " a more cautious claim " would be: " if Susanna Clarke finishes the story she has hardly begun in Strange ... she may well have then written the finest English novel of the fantastic about the myth of England and the myth of the fantastic and the marriage of the two ever published, bar none of the above, including Mirrlees.

Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees.

Hope Mirrlees ( 1887 – 1978 ) was a British translator, poet and novelist.

Born in Chislehurst, Kent and raised in Scotland and South Africa, Mirrlees attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge to study Greek.

While at Cambridge, Mirrlees developed a close relationship with famous classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, Mirrlees ' tutor and later her friend and collaborator.

Mirrlees and Harrison lived together from 1913 until the elder's death in 1928.

Both of them studied Russian, Mirrlees earning a Diploma in Russian from the École des Langues Orientales of Paris, and went on to collaborate on translations from the Russian.

Mirrlees and Harrison visited Spain in 1920, and there took Spanish lessons.

After Harrison's death, Mirrlees converted to Catholicism.

Mirrlees was a friend of Virginia Woolf, who described her in a letter as " her own heroine – capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.

" Her circle of celebrity friends also included T. S. Eliot ; Gertrude Stein, who mentions Mirrlees in " Everybody's Autobiography "; Bertrand Russell ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Mirrlees died in Thames Bank, Goring, England, in 1978.

Mirrlees set her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists ( 1919 ), in and around the literary circles of the 17th Century Précieuses, and particularly those salons frequented by Mlle de Scudéry.

Since 2000, Mirrlees ' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

Hope-in-the-Mist, a book-length study of Mirrlees and her work by Michael Swanwick, was published by Temporary Culture in 2009.

* Atlas-Imperial, a historic American diesel engine builder

A diesel engine operates under even more extreme conditions, with compression ratios of 20: 1 or more being typical, in order to provide a very high gas temperature which ensures immediate ignition of injected fuel.

* Anglo Belgian Corporation, diesel engine manufacturer

Refrigerators and air conditioners operating from the waste heat of a diesel engine exhaust, heater flue or solar collector are entering use.

The most common power source since the 1920s has been the diesel engine.

Microparticles of carbon are produced in diesel engine exhaust fumes, and may accumulate in the lungs.

J. Irwin Miller, 2nd CEO and a nephew of a Co-Founder of Cummins Inc., the Columbus-headquartered diesel engine manufacturer, instituted a program in which the Cummins company paid the architects ' fee, provided the client selected a firm from a list compiled by Miller.

Direct fuel injection which can inject fuel only at the time of fuel ignition ( similar to a diesel engine ) is another recent development which also allows for higher compression ratios on gasoline engines.

In an auto-ignition diesel engine, there is no electrical sparking plug ; the heat of compression raises the temperature of the mixture to its auto-ignition point.

MAN SE | MAN marine crankshaft for 6cyl marine diesel engine | diesel applications.

When the bridge was in use, boaters would signal the operator, who would start a diesel engine and rotate the bridge to the open position on a large gear.

A diesel engine ( also known as a compression-ignition engine ) is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber.

The diesel engine has the highest thermal efficiency of any regular internal or external combustion engine due to its very high compression ratio.

Low-speed diesel engines ( as used in ships and other applications where overall engine weight is relatively unimportant ) can have a thermal efficiency that exceeds 50 percent.

The world's largest diesel engine is currently a Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C Common Rail marine diesel of about @ 102 rpm output.

Rudolf Diesel originally conceived the diesel engine to enable independent craftsmen and artisans to compete with industry.

* 1902: Until 1910 MAN produced 82 copies of the stationary diesel engine.

* 1905: Four diesel engine turbochargers and intercoolers were manufactured by Büchl ( CH ), as well as a scroll-type supercharger from Creux ( F ) company.

* 1910: The Norwegian research ship Fram was a sailing ship fitted with an auxiliary diesel engine, and was thus the first ocean-going ship with a diesel engine.