{"id":224,"date":"2008-03-02T22:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T22:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/2008\/03\/02\/more-industrial-diesels-supplied-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T22:05:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T22:05:51","slug":"more-industrial-diesels-supplied-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/more-industrial-diesels-supplied-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"More industrial diesels supplied to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records of more locos delivered to Afghanistan have been found by Simon Darvill. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThese are two 600mm Deutz OMZ117 F\u00a04wDM locos built\u00a0in 1938 (w\/ns 22732 &#038; 3). They left Deutz on 25\/2\/1938 and were delivered to &#8220;Regierungseinkaufsstelle\u00a0von\u00a0Afghanistan, Berlin, f\u00fcr\u00a0Karachi&#8221;. I believe that this translates as Government Purchase Place of Afghanistan &#8211; I am showing them as delivered to the Afghanistan Government. I assume that the Karachi reference is where they were shipped to and then were collected by whoever the end user was.\u00a0Interestingly they were still working in 1954 as Deutz delivered two new A2L514 engines for them in that year. I have no idea the moment what they were used for but it is interesting that all industrial locos supplied to Afghanistan appear to be of the same gauge.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records of more locos delivered to Afghanistan have been found by Simon Darvill. These are two 600mm Deutz OMZ117 F\u00a04wDM locos built\u00a0in 1938 (w\/ns 22732 &#038; 3). They left Deutz on 25\/2\/1938 and were delivered to &#8220;Regierungseinkaufsstelle\u00a0von\u00a0Afghanistan, Berlin, f\u00fcr\u00a0Karachi&#8221;. I believe that this translates as Government Purchase Place of Afghanistan &#8211; I am showing them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55,84],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-deutz","tag-industrial-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}