File talk:Clp 20091004 DR E 50 42 Fahrmotor Verkehrsmuseum Dresden.jpg

Type of motor? Dmitry G (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

It's an electric motor because it's from an electric locomotive (see: List of DRG locomotives and railcars, E 50 36 to E 50 46). Unfortunately there is no article in English or German about this class. --Urmelbeauftragter 20:06, 29. Aug. 2010 (CEST)

Not the largest, that was the hungarian Kando V40 / V60 electric locomotive's motor.

> [german el-lok motor] the largest in the world

That is not true. The 2500/3500hp poly-phase induction motor of the year 1932 hungarian V40 / V60 locomotive class is larger. It weighs 18 metric tons and is visibly this big [1].

The giant motor didn't even fit ONTO the main frame of the locomotive, but had to be suspended within the frame in a Schnabel-like arrangement, as seen here [2]. Twenty-six such motors were made in England by Metropolitan Vickers and six more built in Hungary by Ganz-Mavag, according to a design by engineer Kalman Kando.

(BTW: the steel barrel seen in the photo's background, with the oil-water cooler mounted at the top, is the so-called "synchronous onboard rotary phase-converter". That 12-ton device, invented by Kando, made it possible to feed the locomotive's giant traction motor with poly-phase current from single-wire 16kV/50Hz overhead catenary supply.) 82.131.146.96 12:11, 17 April 2016 (UTC)