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Chinese undergraduate Engineer was employed under my supervision to carry out the work of sorting checking, marking, and ading into lighters ready for shipment. All the material was new and had never been assembled. There was no such
work as stripping, as quoted
When the Chinese Government ordered the material for building (600) Six Hundred wagons. They did not order any cast steel fittings. They had reckoned their own steel foundry would have been working. When I informed the War Supplies Board of this fact. ( That there were no cart steel fittings"), "We the Kowloon Canton Railway, B.S. were ordered to get them made
specifications and tenders were prepared and submitted to Hong Kong & Whampotock boy. Gio Ho Kou and South China Iron works. The Dock boy could not help out on account of its commitments to shipping. Quotations were received from Tio Ho Kou & South China Iron works. The order was given to these two firms. Approximately about half of order ho 656 were completed with the same number of Body Bolster bentre Braces. This was by the combined efforts of the two firms
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We concentrated on getting those parts manufactured which would enable the wagons to be assembled an run
if only run as flats. The cast iron brake blocks were made by a Chinese contractor at Tham This Po while the rivets were being made by a chinese, kim at tautoon bity. 75% of the Brake Wocks and 30% of the rivets were completed and shipped. Of the Steel fournal Boxes a consign ment of 200 were
of 200 were delivered at the Railway stores on the
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