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Reference code
AU WA S4684
Title
C.M.E. REPORT AND APPENDICES
Date(s)
- 1946-07-12 - 1946-07-12 (Creation)
- 1946-07-12 - 1946-07-12 (Accumulation)
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Name of creator
AU WA A1875 - ROYAL COMMISSION TO EXAMINE AND REPORT UPON THE AUSTRALIAN STANDARD GARRATT LOCOMOTIVES
(1945-10-18 - 1946-08-29)
Administrative history
On 18 October 1945, Judge Albert Asher Wolff was appointed Royal Commissioner to examine and report upon all matters in dispute between the Commissioner of Railways and the W.A. Locomotive Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners' Union with regard to the Australian Standard Garratt Locomotives. The Royal Commission's particular focus was to determine whether such locomotives fulfilled all reasonable requirements from the point of view of safe, economocal and satisfactory working and, if not, to advise whether alteration and modification were practicable to achieve such working, or whether such locomotives should be discontinued in use.
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Report of the Chief Mechanical Engineer (Western Australian Government Railways) on the ASG, S and FS locomotives.
At the request of the Royal Commission, a series of special tests was conducted by the W.A. Government Railways to determine pressures and temperatures on the aforementioned locomotives. The C.M.E. report documents the results derived from the tests, and includes appendices containing all principal test data, as well as the names of all observers and duties they performed on the special tests.
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