Does anyone here – Mike McDonald in particular – have access to technical details or pictures of the “market power wheel” built by Metropolitan-Cammell for service in Jamaica?
Presume that’s MacDonald and not the Dooby brother. I can’t find motor info or a picture of it. Excerpt from The Journal of Transport History**, March 2003** —— This ‘dieselisation’ of the railways had its early beginnings in 1939 when two diesel coaches were ordered from the British firm of D. Wickham & Co. But nothing more seems to have happened until 1963, when twenty multi-unit railcars with Rolls-Royce C6T Mark IV engines of 350 g.h.p. driving two axles on one bogie through a twin-disc torque converter were acquired from the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company at a cost of £621,000. Seven of these cars were composite, each carrying twenty first-class and fifty-eight second-class passengers. The remaining thirty accommodated eighty-three second-class passengers each. There was also one special-purpose car, peculiar to Jamaica, known as ‘the market car wheel’, a modified boxcar fitted with seats and windows, to carry passengers and their goods to market.
The standard Jamaican cars looked like this:
http://metcam.co.uk.nstempintl.com/1960s.htm
Scroll down for the Jamaican cars.
I assume the “market car” would have looked similar
Thanks, guys. It appears iPhones autocorrect to fast-food spelling (I was amused to recall the old comedy routine about how you could tell the game “Trivial Pursuit” had come from Canada) as indeed I do know better.