BRITISH LOCOMOTIVES
CHRISTENED BY HIGH COMMISSIONERS ' CEREMONY AT KING'S CROSS STATION Pros* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 28. (Received June 29, at 10.5 a.m.) Wearing a driver’s cap, Mr W. J. Jordan drove a streamlined locomotive the full length of King’s Cross platform after it had been christened Dominion of New Zealand. He said tire railways in New Zealand were invaluable to land settlement, despite the working losses. , _ The respective High Commissioners named the same type of engines Union of South Africa and Empire of India.
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Evening Star, Issue 22687, 29 June 1937, Page 9
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