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trailer cars which were in poor condition. Some steel-framed B Stock motor cars were converted to trailers, themselves being replaced by new G Stock motorcars. The G Stock consisted entirely of motor cars, all built with a
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The majority of the cars were withdrawn in the early 1960s as CO/CP Stock trains transferred from the Metropolitan line started to become available. The last of the Q Stock was withdrawn in 1971.
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project was the replacement of the potentially dangerous manually operated sliding doors (which could be opened by passengers between stations) with air operated doors controlled by the guard.
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In 1965, several cars were renumbered by adding 100 to the number to avoid conflicting numbers with the
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car. These two cars, numbered 4167 and 4176, were not rebuilt into Q Stock and were classified
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The G Stock was built to allow the scrapping of some of wooden-built
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The two remaining cars were rebuilt into single cars for use on the
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roof similar in style to the B Stock with which they would work.
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until 1971 (with most cars being withdrawn in the early 1960s).
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was standardising its post-1923 stock and were reclassified as
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In 1938, forty-eight of these cars were rebuilt when the
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