RAIL-CAR COMFORT
No Plans To Alter Seats (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 2. No plans were contemplated for making seats in rail-cars more comfortable, the Minister of Railways (Mr McAlpine) told Parliament today. He had been asked by Mr D. Maclntyre (Govt., Hastings) if plans for modernisation of rolling stock included refurnishing the existing railcars so that seats might be “somewhere near as comfortable” as those found in planes and long-distance buses. Seats in rail-cars had to be reversible, the Minister said, and it was not practicable to use plane seats. A change also would not synchronise with the window spacing. In reply to a supplementary question from Mr S. A. Whitehead (Opp., Nelson) the Minister said it probably would cost more than £15,000 to enlarge rail-car windows. In answer to a supplementary question from Sir Leslie Munro (Govt, Waipa), he said there was no way to overcome the noise to rail-cars. Engines of 240 horsepower each were under the floor of the cars, and there was no way of insulating them.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 23
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