Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1914 — BRITISH LINES MAKE ADVANCE [ARTICLE]

BRITISH LINES MAKE ADVANCE

Important and Costly Changes Which Will Add Greatly to Their Present Efficiency. It has been decided to banish “dead” buffer wagons from British railroads. “Dead” buffers are a survival of the early railroad days. Their absolute rigidity, which is said to have helped to shorten the life of a wagon through shunting operations, has been 1 the cause of their undoing, and they are to be superseded by spring buffers, which for some years have been rapidly finding favor with all companies. Goods in transit are not as liable to be damaged where these are in use and in addition there is an added lease of life to the wagons. The chahge is the outcome of regulations made by the railway clearing house authorities, and it is expected that no fewer than about- 50,000 “dead” buffer trucks will be banished.—London Tit-Bits.