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The completion of the chassis has meant that floorboards could be laid. They are Siberian larch and at this stage have just been loose laid, for proper fixing when the wagon sides are built. We have left a trap door in the middle of the floor. Underneath are the snatch-blocks in the centre of the wagon's drawbar. The top picture shows the two snatch-blocks, or shock absorbers. Thesetake the strainwhen the weight of the train passes through the wagon. Clever stuff and not something we wanted to hide beneath the floorboards for ever.
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