"Vice Regal" No.4 - (1940 onward)

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Vice Regal No.4 - (1940 onward)

17<sup>th</sup> March 2007,National Railway Museum – Port Adelaide - <em>Vice Regal</em> car

Entered service in 1940 as first air conditioned car on the South Australian Railways. Constructed at Islington workshops as a steel carriage with a timber panelled interior.

Retained by the South Australian Government after the sale of South Australian Railways to the Commonwealth in 1975. Allocated to the State Transport Authority of South Australia.

It was moved the Port Dock Station Railway Museum in 1988.

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2.4.1940	Entered service.
12.1973	Fitted with transformer and rectifier unit.
28.7.1988	Moved to Port Dock Station Railway Museum.

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