. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . VIEW OF NEWPORT SHOPS OF GOVERNMENT ; The workshops generally cover twelveacres, some 2,300 workpeople being em-ployed there. The adjoining yard occu-pies 120 acres. The works which runfrom west to east are divided into threeblocks. Commencing at the eastern end,the first is a large timber store, containingsome £60,000 worth of timber. This tim-ber comes from all parts of woodworking machinery employedin the manufacture and repair of car-riage and t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . VIEW OF NEWPORT SHOPS OF GOVERNMENT ; The workshops generally cover twelveacres, some 2,300 workpeople being em-ployed there. The adjoining yard occu-pies 120 acres. The works which runfrom west to east are divided into threeblocks. Commencing at the eastern end,the first is a large timber store, containingsome £60,000 worth of timber. This tim-ber comes from all parts of woodworking machinery employedin the manufacture and repair of car-riage and trucks is well arranged andis representative of the best wood-working machinery makers of GreatBritain and the United States. Austral-ians, in general, have an open mindin regard to the purchase of ma-chinery : the cost, design and genera!adaptability of the machine required, be-ing the principal factors in making theirdecision in favor of any particular ma-chine, rather than favoring any particu-lar maker or country. The whole of the eastern block is de-voted to the manufacture and repair ofcarri
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