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EVENTS

July events

July 1 - The Great Railroad Strike Of 1922 begins in the United States , coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven Cent s per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board .

August events

August 31 - H. L. Hamilton and Paul Turner form a company called Electro-Motive Engineering (later to become General Motors Electro-Motive Division ) in Cleveland, Ohio

Unknown date events

The New York Central acquires the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago And St. Louis Railroad (the ''Big Four'' Railroad).

The first Willamette Locomotive is built.

Sir Henry Thornton succeeds David Blyth Hanna as president of Canadian National Railway .

George Hughes succeeds H.P.M. Beames as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London And North Western Railway .

BIRTHS

March births

March 22 - Livio Dante Porta , Argentinian Steam Locomotive mechanical engineer (d. 2003 )

Unknown date births

Robert B. Claytor , president of Norfolk And Western Railway (d. 1993 ).

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