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This third volume of the history of Australia's Commonwealth Engineering (Comeng) picks up where the second volume left off. Contents include: * design and construction of the Indian Pacific trains, coinciding with the first standard gauge passenger train services from Sydney to Perth * takeover of a rival firm, which allowed Comeng to enter the lucrative and very successful business of building Alco-powered, diesel-electric locomotives for the iron ore mines in Australia's northwest * development of the interurban double-deck trains, which were the first such double-deck, air conditioned, electric multiple units in the world * a new factory that specializes in the construction of freight rolling stock * the Union Carriage & Wagon plant, which grew at an unprecedented rate, turning out multiple types of passenger trains, freight wagons, electric and diesel-electric locomotives, as well as the world-famous luxury express, The Blue Train * production of a large numbers of aluminum wagons

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Industry & industrial studies Transport industries

• Full title: Comeng
• Author: John Dunn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781877058905
• ISBN: 1877058904
• ID: 05129166
• Publisher: Rosenberg Publishing
• Weight: 1428 g
• Dimensions: 298 × 219 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. June 2010

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