Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Vol. 3 1966-1977

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The takeover of rival firm A. E. Goodwin allowed Comeng to enter the lucrative and very successful business of building Alco-powered diesel-electric locomotives, for the growing iron ore mines in Australia's northwest. The company's long-established business of building buses and other road transport vehicles continued, as did the arm of Comeng that supplied curtain walling for the high-rise buildings around Australia. The company was now the largest rolling stock manufacturer in the Southern Hemisphere.

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'Company histories tend not to have sparkling reputations, veering as they do from uncritical panegyrics to turgid chronicles. But not this book! A fresh Australian breeze blows the conventional cobwebs away and, in the plain and direct language much favoured by folk down under, a fascinating saga unfolds before the reader.' - R.A.S. Hennssey, SLS Journal February 2011