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Minutes 562 - 570

DIESEL TRAINS COMMITTEE

Minutes of 53rd meeting held on Tuesday, March 11th,1958

PRESENT :-

Mr. L.M. Sayers, Assistant General Manager (Chairman)
Mr. E.H. Baker, Motive Power Officer, Euston
Mr. A.N. Butland, Assistant Civil Engineer, Euston
Mr. George Dow,  Commercial Officer, Euston
Mr. J.J.Finlayson,  Assistant Mechanical & Electrical Engineer, Derby
Mr. T. Fiske, Assistant to General Manager (Modernisation)
Mr. S.H. Gould, Operating Officer, Euston
Mr. N. Nicholls, Assistant to Regional Accountant, Euston
Mr. A.T. Salmon, Assistant Public Relations & Publicity Officer, Euston
Mr. E. Stanley, Assistant Carriage & Wagon Engineer, Derby
Mr. R. Varley, Assistant to General Manager, Euston
Mr. C. Lakin, General Manager's Office, Euston   (Secretary)

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562   GENERAL MATTERS OF POLICY

1.  Minutes of meeting of 15th January, 1958

Agreed.

2.  Programme of Diesel Train operation over next five years

Noted that the 302 vehicles agreed for the London Midland Region for 1958 and 1959 will be allocated to schemes as follows :-

  Type Total Schemes
  A.1. A.2.      
1958 6 (MBS) 6 (DTC)   12 Liverpool-Gateacre-Warrington
  24   " 24   "   48 Not yet allocated.
               
1959 12   " 12 (MC)   24 Manchester Part 2
  50   " 50 (DTC)   100 Not yet allocated.
  9   " 9   "   18 Chester-North Wales Area
  (Carried over from 1958)
  50 (MBS) 50 (MC)   100 (Services in the Central
              (Division Liverpool-
              (St.Helens-Wigan
  (Subject to agreement to fit one 238 H.P. Rolls
 Royce power equipment to each vehicle)
 
 
   
 
Total 151   151     302  
 
 
   
 

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