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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3 (July 2, 1928)

Enamelling

Enamelling.

The exterior enamelling of the new coaches is carried out in the standard colours of the L.M. and S. Railway, and includes lettering and numbering. No paint whatever is employed above the underframe, except around the door margins and gangways. For the sides and ends of carriages 14-gauge plates are employed, and 16-gauge plates for the roofs. The underframe is built of rolled steel channels, joists and angles riveted together, the headstocks being reinforced behind buffers to withstand severe buffer shocks. The carriages all are mounted on four-wheeled bogies of British standard pattern, and the body framing is constructed of pressed vertical members and rolled steel longitudinal members, with four steel diaphragm plates suitably spaced to strengthen the roof. An entirely new era in passenger carriage construction is inaugurated by the utilisation of the enamelling process, and it is claimed that the colours will be absolutely permanent, and that there will be no necessity for repainting and revarnishing as in the case of ordinary paint.