TWENTY-TWO LOCOMOTIVES FROM BRITAIN
! SHIPPED SAFELY TO TURKEY 1 j Britain’s locomotive works are still I keeping overseas railways supplied with ! equipment despite the fact that they; {are also turning out vast quantities of j such war equipment as tanks, torpedoes, j ; shells, bombs, gun mountings and car- 1 ] ; riages, and even mooring buoys and I ] I anchors. L ! Twenty-seven locomotives, having a j ! total value of over £300,000, were shipped from Britain in the first three 1 months of this year to Turkey. Egypt. ! Iraq, South Africa and the Straits Settlements i Shipments are still going on and de- ' spite war hazards in the Mediterranean, > further deliveries have been made to Turkey since the end of the first quar- ( ter, making a total of 22 this year. l Where new locomotives cannot be «. supplied Britain is sending boilers for ] re-equipping existing engines. A total | of 38 was exported during the March , quarter, to India, South Africa. Peru and Uruguay These have an average ' value of L2OOO each. Britain’s locomotive works now cm- ' ploy over 10.000 hands, including many 1 women.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 3
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