Orders for 20 steam locomotives, 11 light Diesel shunting locomotives, and 50 steel tank wagons have been placed with British firms by the Buenos Ayres Great Southern and the Buenos Ayres Western railways. The work will cost approximately £300,000, and will take nine months complete, The locomotives will be built by the Vulcan Foundry and the English Electric Company of Preston. Messrs. Hurst and Nelson, of Glasgow, will construct the tank wagons, which are to be used for the transport of petroleum These orders follow contracts for rail ears costing £400,000 and 600,000 tons of coal placed in Britain by British-Argentine Railways during the last six months,
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