*CAPTAIN FABERI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he will consider the desirability of calling the attention of the railway companies to the American device on railway engines, by which the drivers can pass through a door in the weather board when they go forward to oil their engines when running, and thence into a frame which is railed in as well, whereas the English driver has no choice but to clamber round the outside of the cab when the engine is running.
§ MR. CHURCHILLI am advised that such an arrangement is not only impossible in this country (owing to the smaller size of the locomotives and the space between the tracks), but also to a large extent unnecessary, as the more important parts of the mechanism can be lubricated from the footplate. Enginemen should not leave the footplate while the engine is running except in cases of emergency.