LUXURY RAILWAY-CAR
jCONSTRUCTION IN ENGLAND A'DIAN MAHARAJA'S ORDER LONDON. March 1!» The world's wonder railway carriage has been built for the .Maharaja of Indore bv the Gloucester Waggon Company, of which Mr. H. L. Boyce, Australian-born member of the House of Commons, is tlie head. The carriage,, which cost £.18,000. will lie shipped to India at the weekend. It contains a children's nursery, children's bathroom, special cabins for tho stall', and a chromium-plated kitchen, with the most modern cooking gadgets, and is believed to rival anything of the kind in existence. The Maharaja's suite includes most luxurious sitting-rooms, furnished like miniature palaces. Mr. Boyce stated to-day that no carriage in the world, even including those on Royal trains, could approach this one for magnificence. It is so long that the Maharaja had to seek the Indian Government's permission to use it on the Indian railways.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22688, 29 March 1937, Page 9
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145LUXURY RAILWAY-CAR New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22688, 29 March 1937, Page 9
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