SCIENTIFIC
UROPEAN and American railway companies are now paying a great deal of attention to scientific research on subjects which might be, ordinarily, considered outside the range of their activities a.s public hauliers and transporters. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co., probably the largest commercial undertaking in the world, recently opened a new’ research laboratory at Derby, England. The L.M.S. has an authorised capital of £439,000,000, and gives employment to 223,000 persons, in addition to 7000
miles of line open to traffic, it possesses 80')(‘ locomotives, hundreds of thousands of vehicles, 45 steamers and 31
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 10
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96SCIENTIFIC Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 10
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