RAILWAYS AND DOCKS
EXPENDITURE OF £9,750,000 FOR USE IN FRANCE (Official Wireless) (Received Dec. 20, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 19 The Ministry of Supply, which is responsible for providing the British Expeditionary Force in France with locomotives, rolling stock and materials for the permanent way, has placed an order for 240 freight tender engines and for 10,000 twenty-ton covered goods waggons. The engines and goods waggons are to be used overseas on certain sections of the French railways operated by the British Expeditionary Force. The cost will be about £8,000,000. In addition approximately £1,750,000 worth of permanent way equipment and various mechanical handling plants for docks has been ordered, making a total expenditure > of about £9,750,000.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20992, 20 December 1939, Page 7
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116RAILWAYS AND DOCKS Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20992, 20 December 1939, Page 7
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