Geoff Pethick has kindly sent us some information which he came across while reading an old copy of the South African Railway Modelling Scene magazine. Recognising that our Hoekfontein workshops were restoring the identical wagons he kindly thought of us and send us the information. We are publishing it herewith for general information purposes.
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