PULLMANS ON RAILWAYS.
ORDER FROM AUSTRALIA. The purchase by the South Australian Government of three Pullman railway carriages for use 011 the State railways has brought Mr. E. L. Goodwin, assistant to the mechanical superintendent of the Pullman Company, from Chicago to advise the South Australian Railway Department during the initial operation of the cars. Mr. Goodwin, who is a passenger on the Niagara, said they are the first Pullman cars sold in Australia or New Zealand. There are two compartment cars, similar to those in use in the United States, each weighing 167,3001b., and one dining car, weighing 167,3001b. Constructed of solid steel, they are equipped and furnished on a luxurious scale, fitted with automatic as well as ordinary couplings, and supplied with vapour systems of heating.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19929, 24 April 1928, Page 12
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128PULLMANS ON RAILWAYS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19929, 24 April 1928, Page 12
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