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                    [0] => This is an artificial series created by Archives New Zealand to document a group of records transferred by the Chief Mechanical Engineers Office of New Zealand Railways.
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            [id] => 17562
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            [name] => Chief Mechanical Engineer's Office, various technical papers
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                    [custom5] => Various technical plans and blueprints.
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            [authenticityNote] => This series description was compiled as part of a project to capture the finding aids created prior to 1987 into the GAIMS system.  Series start and end dates are derived from the dates of holdings.

Accession W2109 was transferred to the then National Archives on 29 June 1981
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This is an artificial series created by Archives New Zealand to document a group of records transferred to it by the Chief Mechanical Engineers Office of New Zealand Railways.The accession appears to consist of mechanical blueprints and engine details.
The different groups of technical information in this series are arranged in folders as follows -
Folders 1 - 3:  Westing House brake - Blueprints roll 34
Folders 4 - 7:  Makers drawings (Class 'C' - Neilson)
Folder 8:  Roll 32 (Class 'A' - Dubs)
Folders 9 - 14:  Roll 27
Folders 15 - 20:  Class 'H' Neilson
Folders 21 - 24:  Roll 22 (Miscellaneous)
Folders 26 - 36:  Class 'H' Neilson
Folders 37 - 40:  Class 'J' Stephenson
Folders 42 - 44: 'L' locos Avonside Engineering Company Bristol (Bound)
Folders 45 - 48:  Makers drawings (Class 'F' Stevenson)
Folders 49 - 53: Hurunui-Bluff Section - Eight wheeled  coupled goods engines with Bissell bogie at front end cylinders - Roll 33
Folders 54 - 59:  Miscellaneous drawings & tables  
Folders 60 - 69:  WMR drawings - Roll 753
Folders 70 - 74:  Wellington-Manawatu Railway - Six wheeled coupled passenger engines with Bissel bogie at front and hind ends (Class 'V' - Nasmyth-Wilson)
Folders 75 - 79:  Wellington & Manawatu - 12" cylinder engine
Folders 80 - 83:  NZR standard drawings (Class 'D' - Neilson)
Folders 84 - 89:  Makers drawings (Class 'J' - Vulcan)
Folders 90 - 93:  Makers drawings (Class 'F' - Dubs)
Folders 94 - 97:  Class 'F' - No. 216
Folders 98 - 103:  Makers drawings (Class 'S' - Avonside)
Folders 104 - 108:  Class 'LA' - Nasmyth-Wilson
Folder 109:  Makers drawings (Class 'G' - Black / Hawthorne)
Folders 110 - 118:  Class 'D'
Folders 119 - 125:  Makers drawings (Class 'R' - Avonside)
Folders 126 - 130  Single boiler, 12" Cylinder Fairlie Engines, bound together
Folders 131 - 138:  Class 'H' - Avonside
Folders 139 - 148  These folders appear to contain standard drawings
Folders 149 - 153:  Makers drawings (Steamer blueprints - Thornycroft)
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