Demountable Flats. ...

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‘Demountable Flats’ – The Railway Magazine – February 1922 – and developing methods of reducing freight handling costs in the 20th century. …

The Railway Magazine of February 1922 introduced its readers to the advantages of ‘demountable flats’.

‘Demountable Flats’ – The Railway Magazine – February 1922 – and developing methods of reducing freight handling costs in the 20th century. …

The Railway Magazine of February 1922 introduced its readers to the advantages of ‘demountable flats’. ‘Demountable flats’ significantly improved the loading and unloading o…

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‘Demountable flats’ significantly improved the loading and unloading of consignments of goods on railways and road motor vehicles. ‘Demountable flats’ made it possible to transfer a load from one to the other or vice versa in a few minutes. The result was a significant “saving in time and labour. … The system, which [was] capable of considerable extension, [was] finding favour on several railways. It [had] recently been adopted by the London and South Western Railway with great advantage and two illustrations [were] reproduced [in their article] showing the arrangements employed.”