Re: PHAs PHNs and Carriage codes (was: new XPT cars order)

["Ray McDermott" <raymcd@ozemail.com.au>]

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Ray McDermott   raymcd@ozemail.com.au

David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> The PHNs were built for the Southern Aurora by Comeng, with fluting under
> license to the Budd Corporation, as per the A/C sleepers and the S set
cars.
>
> The PHAs were built for later trains (North Coast motorail??) by Goninan,
but
> they did not have an agreement to use Budd's fluting design, so had to go
with
> their own, as per the K/C set cars.

I think there was more to the Budd licence than fluting design!

Ray