GERMAN LOCOMOTIVES.
A SOUTH AFRICAN ORDER. WHY ENGLISH FIRM FAILED. (Received 10.30 a.m.) . x\,' -\LONDON, April 22. . The newspaper, "Modern ' Transport," announces that the administration of the South African railways has ordered twenty heavy locomotive railway engines from. Germany,: fearing tbat British
builder si faced with the probability of trouble in the coal and engineering trades, would be unable to deliver the engines on the dates mentioned in the tenders. The British tenders compared favourably with most of the United States and tenders.—:(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 7
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