. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . Fig. 40.—Part of a Wurtemberg hospital car.[After Sigel.] AND WOUNDED ON EAIL EOADS. 37 as many empty freight cars were taken on as the locomotive could draw, andthese were fitted up, while the train was in motion, from the material on thestore-cars. The mode of suspension was devised by Herr Hennicke, an en-gineer of Hamburg, and consisted of a strong iron claw, tightened by a screw.

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