LARGER RAIL-CAR.
NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION. (Per Press Association.) WELLINCTON, This Day. A larger rail-car is under eonstruction and will he on rails before very long. The car is Gf> feet long, fitted with two ten-litre Diesel engines, developing 120 -horse-power at 1800 revolutions a. minute. The engines are rubber mounted on bogies, thus removing vibration from the passenger compartment. The ear can he driven from either end and thus is reversible. Two cars can he coupled together and he controlled bv one driver. The car is semi-streamlined, stoolwelded construction, with insulated bodies. The weight is. 32 tons. The maximum speed attainable! js 75 miles per hour.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 196, 1 June 1938, Page 6
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