Diesel locos to be rebuilt
NZPA Wellington; The first three of . 35 Railways Department DA class ( diesel-electric locomotives —I the mainstay of North Island; rail services — are being H shipped to Australia for re-1 building. The rebuilding of the 35 ( locomotives will cost SI3M, which includes new diesel engines to increase horse- ( power, new hoods, and. modifications to reduce ( noise. The work will be done; by Clyde Engineering, ( the official licensee for Gen-, eral Motors in Australia. The first of the DAl<
| class locomotives entered service in 1954, and the last in 1968. The mileage of most is (high — the oldest have i clocked close to 2M kilometres. I Rebuilding, using factoryreconditioned parts and in-( (eluding some recently-devel-( ,oped equipment, will give (the department virtually (new and up-to-date locomotives at a cost well below (the new price. I Rebuilding, new to N.Z.R., jis a common practice over(seas as an economical measure to alter design and in-j (crease horsepower.
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