Author affirms that 9900 additional cars per yr could be added to present output by using low alloy light weight steels in construction of freight cars; advantages described and objections examined; program for 1949 analyzed in connection with steel shortage; reasons why progress is slow and why immediate transition would be of great value.
Steel conservation in lightweight freight cars
Iron Age
Iron Age ; 163 , n 5
1949
8 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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