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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 8 (December 1, 1927)

Brake Equipment

Brake Equipment.

International goods traffic working across the Continent of Europe has for some time been hampered by reason of the lack of uniformity in the type of brake employed in the respective countries parties to through movement. Under the Treaty of Versailles, there was aimed at the standardisation of freight train brakes throughout the whole of the Continent, and satisfactory progress effected towards this end is already facilitating very largely the haulage of through merchandise.

The Westinghouse automatic brake has been adopted as standard in Britain, Belgium, France, Italy, Greece, Roumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. In Germany an effort has been made to adhere to a German product-the Kunze Knorr brake-and for the time being this brake is utilised throughout Germany. Although not of the standard type, this brake is capable of page 21 operating in conjunction with the Westinghouse, and wagons so fitted now are able to travel in through goods trains across Europe.