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Colonel Holman F Stephens, engineer and manager of several light railways (US - short lines) in England and Wales used a number of rail motors of this general type in the 1920s and 1930s. Some based on Ford Model T components, some on other makes. There was also a Ford Model T 'rail lorry' - see the Colonel Stephens Museum (Tenterden, Kent, England) website at - <br />http://www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk/pages/topics/oddity/oddity_of_oddities.htm <br />The railmotors generally ran in back-to-back pairs and the trailing one was put into neutral. There have been a couple of articles by people who drove the cars in the 1930s in the 'Tenterden Terrier', magazine of the Kent & East Sussex Railway, a steam line which operates some 10 miles of the Colonel's first line for tourist purposes. <br />Some 15 years ago, the K&ESR had discussions with Ford UK about building a replica railcar (with modern engine) as an apprentice project but it didn't come to anything at that time, so the NZ version is of interest. <br />Tom Burnham, Staplehurst, Kent, England
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