Railways - Rolling Stock: Replacement of Wooden Rolling Stock

Reports, memoranda and extracts of meetings including details on diesel car operation and trial trips with such a car, air worked doors, the use of metadyne equipment and its performance with graphs, notes on a report of the Chairman of the Victorian Railway Commissioners, air conditioned cars on the Morden to Edgware Line, a special expenditure requisition to buy extra rolling stock for the extension of the Hammersmith & City service to Barking with stock requirements, first class travelling on the Metropolitan Line between London and Rickmansworth, the repayment of loans and notes on a debate about steel versus wood stock. Also included is an illustrated London Transport booklet called 'Rolling Stock Overhaul' and showing the processes at Acton Works.

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