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Document - Specification, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Austral Otis Rail Grinding Machine", July 1929

  • Austral Otis Rail Grinding Machine specificatioin - cover letter

    Austral Otis Rail Grinding Machine specificatioin - cover letter

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    Austral Otis Rail Grinding Machine specificatioin - full document

  • Austral Otis Rail Grinding Machine specificatioin - cover letter

Historical information

Document - letters and comments and suggestions for a tender specification for the Austral Otis grinding machine from Chief Engineer MMTB to A G Wray Engineer for Tramways, NSW Govt Tramways. The grinder was used to remove corrugations from the rail head. Includes comments about the performance of a similar machine in Melbourne. Dated July 1929.

Significance

Yields information the performance of the Melbourne rail grinders - 1929

Physical description

Document or memo - 6 typed foolscap sheets and 3 quarto typed letters.

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