CHURCHILL FUNERAL RAIL CAR SOON TO RETURN TO ENGLAND.Byline: JENNIFER MCLAIN Staff Writer INDUSTRY -- The historic rail car that carried the body of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will return home after nearly 30 years on display at the Industry Hills Golf Club Hills Golf Club is a golf club located in Mölndal near Gothenburg in Sweden. The 18-hole course, designed by Arthur Hills, was opened in 2004. External links
The 50,000-pound funeral railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more. coach was purchased by former Industry City Councilman Darius Johnson for $980 in 1965, while he and Majestic Realty realty n. a short form of "real estate." (See: real estate) REALTY. An abstract of real, as distinguished from personalty. Realty relates to lands and tenements, rents or other hereditaments. Vide Real Property. CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Edward Roski Jr. were in England. "The rail car was going to be auctioned off basically for scrap, so we ended up purchasing it," Roski said. It was shipped to Long Beach and remained in storage until 1979, when it was used to help create an English-themed display at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Course at the Industry Hills Golf Club. The golf club was a partnership between the city of Industry and Majestic Realty. Now, as part of a restoration effort led by the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Swanage Railway The Swanage Railway is a six mile-long heritage railway in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England. The railway follows the route of the Purbeck branch line (Norden Park & Ride - Corfe Castle - Harman's Cross - Herston Halt - Swanage), and has been re−connected to the Trust of Britain, the funeral car will return to its homeland. "It's come full circle," Roski said. "But if we didn't purchase it, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if it would have survived until today." The coach, which carried Churchill's body on Jan. 30, 1965, will leave Tuesday for the Port of Long Beach, and then will be shipped Aug. 21 to England. The Swanage Railway Trust originally planned to pay the shipping costs, but its fundraising efforts failed. Instead, the city of Industry will foot the $67,000 bill. "Even though we paid for it, it does belong in its mother country," Industry Mayor Dave Perez said. "We all agreed it deserves to go home." The Swanage Railway Trust has been trying to get the coach back to England for nearly a year. It plans to restore the car and run it on its six mile-long heritage railway in Dorset, England. Newspaper reports in 1965 said the wooden coach served as a baggage car for the London Great Western Railway before it was taken over by British Railways. In 1940, the coach was earmarked for destruction, but was spared by Churchill. jennifer.mclain(at)sgvn.com (626) 962-8811, Ext. 2477 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The rail car that carried the body of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be returned by the City of Industry to its English homeland. |
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