£40,000 HOSPITAL TRAIN
BUILT IN EiVGLAND FOR THE AMERICAN ARMY. Tho first ambulance train built in England for tho American Army has been handed over to tho American Expeditionary Forco by the builders, the Midland Railway Company. The train, built in the, record timo of nine weeks, cost £40,000. It is made up of Ifi cars, and is designed to carry 393 soldier patients. Painted in glossy white enamel, with mahogany polished window frames and fittings, the fine bright ward cars each contain 3G folding rots in throe tiers, the cots in the middle tier being arranged so that they can he folded down to form backs for sitting cases in tlio lower tier. Th'cro aro also infectious ward car, dispensary, treatment, operating and emergoncy rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, officers' cars, and staff and personnel cars.
The gauze shutter windows so successful in the Mediterranean trains are repeated in this train, which is further fitted with many new improvements, including wator tanks built into tho roof, which carry 2835 gallons, tho heating apparatus in the door, and a self-contained hot-water circulator for use when tho engine is not a tiached.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 127, 15 February 1918, Page 5
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189£40,000 HOSPITAL TRAIN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 127, 15 February 1918, Page 5
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