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5.
Mr. Perrin was in a quandary; the coaches wer
expected to arrive in a week or so, and he had been told
that they must not be sent into China. To help him out,
we agreed to store the coaches on the conditions laid down
in a letter dated 7th September 1937, a copy of which is
attached. These conditions were agreed to by him on
September 9th and we started to put in a siding 500 feet
long at our own expense to enable the work to be accomplish-
ed. The only way we could handle this storage with the
limited means at our disposal was to lay a short length of
temporary track at a suitable angle to this siding, lift
one bogie on to this short track by means of our 65-ton
breakdown orane, slide the coach forward after picking up
the rear bogie, lower the reur bogie and finally jack up
the coach, block it, and remove the temporary track for
the next operation.
6.
The 22 coaches came alongside Holt's Wharf on
September 21st, and Mr. R.J. Januszowski, the Acting Far
Eastern Representative of the International Wagons-Lits
Company, now came into the picture.
accommodation for the coaches, firstly because there was
He wanted siding
an element of risk in lifting and stacking them; secondly
the insurance applied only whilst they were on rails; and
thirdly they would need blocking up if taken off the rails.
7.
The question was discussed by the intere sted
parties in my office on September 23rd. Mr. Januszowski
stated that he would require 1,840 feet of sidings for the
accommodation of the coaches. He was shown plan D.0. 1700 P.
which illustrated the only way sidings could be provided in
the limited space available. The question of finance was
worked out in an equitable manner, so that neither the
Wagons-Lits Company nor the Kailway would lose money by this
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