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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13601, 5 February 1915, Page 5

An engineer who had experience with the -Baldwin engines iised by the old Alanawhtu Railway Company, and later on ibytlvi Government, ' Stated to $ NiZ. Times represet)ln 'live that iri the opinion of most of tliosc who had, worked these oiijfin6s, they were "cheap and. nasty." They were continually m the • repair shop for minor brbakdowris, and'jis compared- Avith engines -of 'British manufac-, ture, went to the aiiop 1 once a weeJi instead .of about once evory three months: It inV&'iably." took, - he said, a much longer timi* to . overhaul the American product than the British engine. Cheapness was always cohsideved m the Baldwin factory, and many essential partß of the machinery contain, for example, only half as many nuts, as the corresponding. 'parts of the engine made m England. It seemed to be the unanimous view of the engineers concerned that the action of thej (Government was bad from the bnsi'ne'ss standpoint of übUing good value for thy monoy.