FAMOUS ENGINE
-CORONATION" TO BE SCRAPPED. RUNS MH.LION MILES. A famous railway engine. Mier completing more than a million miles, is to be scrapped. The "Coronation.” which began its working life 29 years ago -at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, has been sent to a railway "graveyard” in the Midlands. Here it will perform one last service to its country by yielding 50 tons of scrap metal in the war effort, after the "break-up gang" have re-1 moved every part of it that can be used again. "The life of an engine may be anything up to 50 years,” said a London Midland and Scottish Railway official this week, “and we have engines which have covered a million and flhalf miles. "We doubt if the engines we are building today will last as long as ’.hose wo built 50 years ago.” added the official. "In those days they were built to last. Today we would rather have a shorter life with, maximum ef-fiek-nc v."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 2
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168FAMOUS ENGINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 2
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