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Pre-1923 RCH wagon standards


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2 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

MR Carriage & Wagon Committee minute 2783 of 7 October 1892:

 

Messrs Turton, Platts & Co.'s application

              

A letter written by Messrs Turton, Platts & Co. of Sheffield to the Chairman of the Company dated September 26th 1892, alleging that the Midland Railway Company refused to allow Private Wagon Builders to use Turton, Platts & Co’s Patent Buffer, having been referred to the Carriage and Wagon Committee, was fully considered, and the Committee came to the conclusion that as the specification for Private Owner’s Wagons had been compiled by the Locomotive Engineers and Carriage and Wagon Superintendents of all the Railway Companies and agreed to by them as one general uniform specification to be adhered to by all parties, and had been fully considered by the General Managers in their conferences, and afterwards printed and distributed from the Railway Clearing House to all the Railway Companies, that the Midland Railway Company had no power to alter the standard specification without the consent of the united Railway Companies.

 

The minutes of the RCH General Managers' Conferences ate at the National Archives...


The nineteenth century equivalent of “the computer says ‘no’”…

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