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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 1 (April 1, 1936.)

Central Research Laboratory

Central Research Laboratory.

With the object of forwarding scientific research in its many applications to railway operation, the L. M. & S. Railway has opened at Derby a central research laboratory, which marks quite a new development. The laboratory consists of a two-story block, structurally designed to permit of the addition of a third story when required, with an engineering test-room and workshop block. The laboratory block has a total floor area on each floor of about 5,600 square feet, and the engineering test-room and workshop block covers an area of 3,500 ft. The rooms on the ground floor include a chemical laboratory, a metallography room, a pyrometry room, a corrosion
“Ganz” Railcar, Hungarian State Railways.

“Ganz” Railcar, Hungarian State Railways.

page 39 laboratory, a constant temperature and humidity room, two engineering testrooms, and a workshop and metallurgical furnace room. On the second floor there are testing laboratories for the examination of textile fabrics, paints and varnishes.

Vice-President Sir Harold Hartley has been appointed director of scientific research, and experts have been engaged to take charge of the various sections. There is undoubtedly a great need for close co-operation between the scientific mind and the railway mind. A laboratory such as this should enable many valuable economies to be effected in materials and working methods, and also ensure the best use being made of modern scientific developments as they affect railway operation.