LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION.
THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME. : (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) j Christchurcii, July 5. The Hon. J. A. Millar has informed a deputation of the local niombers of Parliament that it was intended to build thirty, engines in eighteen months in the Dominion. Ton "W.F.V engines would be built at Hillside, ten "B's" at Addington, and tenders would be called for ten "A's." The work would bo put in.hand as soon as, the material was available. The patterns were, now in Addington Workshops. If tho tenders for the ten "A's" wero not satisfactory, tho workshops would be-given a enanco. m * tendod to lay down ten engines in the workshops, so that tho men would be able to specialise, and become export in building th'enij and, as soon as a man finished his part on one engine, he would bo engaged on the samo part of the nest, and so on. This would show whether tho workshops could do the work 6as cheaply as private shops.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 552, 6 July 1909, Page 6
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163LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 552, 6 July 1909, Page 6
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