Passenger coaches of special tubular construction in which high tensile steel was used and welding extensively adopted, built to replace old wooden ones which are being scrapped; axles are hollow bored, realizing saving of 275 kg, and further gain of 96 kg obtained by making walls of journal boxes thinner; lightening of wheel centers and corrugated cast steel in manufacture, saves 320 kg in each vehicle.
New lightweight suburban coaches for eastern railways of France
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 67 , n 26
1937
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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