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Image (right): Krauss #1 at Catumbela Sugar Factory (0-4-0WT Krauss 8047/22), created from a photo by CE Rickwood in an archived article at www.irsociety.co.uk/.
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CE Rickwood visited the Sociedad Agricola Cassequel Limitada, who own a sugar mill at Catumbela (on the coastal plain between Lobito and Benguela), in the 1960s. The primitive open air museum of 60cm equipment included the Krauss shown above.
Further information from The Industrial Railway Record archives: Rickwood, CE (1967). 'Coconuts, Cane and Coffee', The Industrial Railway Record, 13: March, pp 20-25/33. Downloaded from www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/13/coconuts.htm, 17 April 2009.
