Re: Comeng/Budd licences

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@eisa.net.au>]

All Stainless Steel cars built at Com Eng Granville up until the last V sets
and excepting the Goninan Suburban sets were built under the Budd Licence.
Goninan had the Pullman Standard licence in Australia and they used a
different shaped fluting, hence the different shaped fluting on these cars.
Why the last V sets had the Goninan style fluting I am not sure about.  I
understand all Comeng fluting was rolled on a very old rolling machine that
had been used to roll the fluting on the original General Pershing Zephyrs.
Perhaps it wore out and Comeng had to source its fluted steel elsewhere.
Does anybody know who rolled the Goninan stainless steel. There was an
article on the NSW Budd cars in the ARHS Bulletin a couple of years ago that
confirmed the story about the Budd fluting rolled by Comeng.  It is
understood that ABB has retained the rolling machine as it has quite
historical significance.  The Overland cars are just ordinary carbon steel
cars with stainless steel fluting applied for atheistic reasons only.
Southern Aurora/IP etc were all Budd.
Cheers
Rod Gayford

"Richard" <richard_snook@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> What technique or licence was used for  Overland an Aurora fluted steel
cars??
>
> >:~)) Richard