CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950 — Page 77

Claims in connection with Railway materials

requisitioned in Hong Kong in 1941

Settlement recommended by War Office

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War Supplies Board Claim

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Appendix A to Sir Mark Young's despatch No. 80 of 10th April 1947.

Interim settlement

£12,500

Kowloon Canton Railway (British Section) Appendix E to Sir Mark Young's

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despatch No. 80 of 10th April, 1947.

Item 1

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4 locos

5 wagons

£9,432

Item 2

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Preparing 149 wagons for shipment

£13,410

Item 3

Preparing material

for 600 wagons for shipment

£28,650

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Addl. Item 4

3 tank locos

£ 3,342

Addl. Item 5 Converting and

(a)

(b)

-(interim settlement)

See note below

preparing 5 locos for shipment

£ 1,500

£56,334

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Item 4 relates to 3 tank locos shipped to India in 1941 for conversion. These locos appear to be similar to the Kitson locos which were agreed at £1,514 each, including conversion and spares; allowing £400 each for conversion and spares the value of the locos would be £1,114 each.

Item 5 is in respect of work understood to have been carried out in the British Section Railway Workshops when

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4 North British and 1 Baldwin locos, the property of the Chinese Government, were coverted to Middle East standards and subsequently prepared for shipment. A figure of £300 each locomotive would be an appropriate amount for this work.

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