H E Oving, Jr / H E Oving, Jr/Handelsvereeniging 0-8-0 Locomotives in Indonesia

Class unknown (Locobase 14660)

Data from DeGolyer, Volume 60, pp. 381. Works number was 43853 in August 1916.

This plantation tank had to negotiate curves as tight as 20 metres (66 feet) radius or 87 1/2 degrees, according to the specification. To permit such tight cornering, the engine only had flanges on the front and rear drivers on each side.

The engine was built as a wood burner, but it was delivered with an extra set of grates, netting, high exhaust, deflecting plate, straight stack to allow it to burn coal. There was no extra charge.

Class unknown (Locobase 14661)

Data from DeGolyer, Volume 60, pp. 385. Works number was 43853 in August 1916.

This pair of plantation tanks had to negotiate curves as tight as 20 metres (66 feet) radius or 87 1/2 degrees, according to the specification. To permit such tight cornering, the engine only had flanges on the front and rear drivers on each side. In addition, the flanged wheels turned on the Klien-Lindner design of hollow axles. (Locobase 3616 describes the Klien-Lindner axle.)

The engine was built as a wood burner, but it was delivered with an extra set of grates, netting, high exhaust, deflecting plate, straight stack to allow it to burn coal. There was no extra charge.

These two engines and the smaller, 60-cm 0-8-0T that followed (Locobase 14660) stirred up complaints during their operation. The notes on Baldwin's specification page do not specify the shortcomings.

Class unknown (Locobase 14662)

Data from DeGolyer, Vol 60, pp. 389. Works numbers were 43853 in August 1916, 44504-44506 and 44692 in December, and 44822 in January 1917.

These plantation tanks came in a larger size than the earlier engines delivered to Oving in Java and apparently these were more satisfactory. They rode on a wider 70-cm gauge

The engine was built as a wood burner, but it was delivered with an extra set of grates, netting, high exhaust, deflecting plate, straight stack to allow it to burn coal. There was no extra charge.

Baldwin delivered locomotives of this design to both H E Oving directly and to the Handelsvereeniging of Amsterdam, which owned dozens of tobacco, tea, and sugar cane plantations on Java.