Editorial comment on report by Committee sent to Director of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Committee has come to unanimous conclusion that locomotive testing plant would be of material and substantial benefit to railway engineering; proposed plant would be able to test all sorts of locomotives and would afford means of making scientific investigations upon electric and internal-combustion engines, as well as upon those new modifications of standard type which are bound to arise.


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    Title :

    National locomotive testing plant


    Additional title:

    Engineer


    Published in:

    Engineer ; 151 , n 3922


    Publication date :

    1931


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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