BRITISH RAILWAY WAGGONS
Assembling Begins Next Month The assembly of new ICclass rwilway waggons, imported from Britain, is expected to begin next month art the Railways Department’s worfctoops ait Addington. It is hoped to assemble 10 waggons a week. Altogether 460 waggons are being imported, and these will active in New Zealand at regular intervals throughout the remainder of the year. Within the tot few weeks 50 have arrived art Addington, and another 50 are expected in about two weeks. Already the workshops are turning out five NC-ctoi waggons a week. These were originally buitt for the West Coast timber industry, but are now in use generally throughout New Zealand,
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 9
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