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Old 03-06-04, 23:34
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Toronto
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Another thanks for your reply!
Checking the local universities, etc., around Ontario, I did not find listed that year of Canadian Defense Qurterly:81. Is there an on-line source for that particular year of CDQ? Any spot that I should physically go to in Toronto. York, Toronto University Library, some private institutional library??
Now, looking through some old Russell shots of mine, I note that various street railway equipment is attributed to a Russell Car Company. Is this our King/Dufferin location producing street railway maintenance vehicles?
The book "Made up to Standard: Thomas Alexander Russell" is available for purchase. Anyone reader know if it just reproduces auto photos, or does the author document/cover the armoured cars and railroad equipment?
Gord, Some Russell workers are sure to have retired back to the British Isles. Any overseas readers run across data on the employees/engineers employed by Russell, stuff like diaries, autobiographies, albums? Anything like that here in Canada?
Gord, that huge chassis armour beast at the Pancho Villa Museum is not what I remember on Dufferin St. Who reproduced that Jeffrey-Quad monster for the museum? I did not see any data on the repro armour on the web. Can I assume that it has a modern engine and is run about for the parades and tourists??
The main line rail probably spurred right into the Russell plant. Jeffrey chassis could have been shipped by rail flats right into the Russell plant, for tinkering.
Still searching.......
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