. American engineer and railroad journal . ofthe standard M. C. B. 4^ x 8 freight journal box. Uncoupling Arrangements for M. C. B. Automatic Couplers. G. L. Potter, G. W. West, R. C. Blackall, R. M. Galbraith, G. , C. E. Turner, Committee. Your committee appointed to consider whether a standard un-coupling device is practicable, and the details thereof, submitted areport at the convention held at Saratoga, Xew York, on June 17,1896, which report was based on the result of their consideration ofthe subject with a view to the practicability of submitting a designand location of attachm
. American engineer and railroad journal . ofthe standard M. C. B. 4^ x 8 freight journal box. Uncoupling Arrangements for M. C. B. Automatic Couplers. G. L. Potter, G. W. West, R. C. Blackall, R. M. Galbraith, G. , C. E. Turner, Committee. Your committee appointed to consider whether a standard un-coupling device is practicable, and the details thereof, submitted areport at the convention held at Saratoga, Xew York, on June 17,1896, which report was based on the result of their consideration ofthe subject with a view to the practicability of submitting a designand location of attachments that could be used with all designs ofM. C. B. couplers in use, and concluded that this was not practica-ble and so reported. After some discustion, during which it wassuggested that while it might not be possible to design an attachment in a fixed location that would operate all of the couplers, it wasthought possible to design one that would answer for the great ma-jority of the couplers in use, and the committee was continued with.
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