MONORAIL TRIALS.
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS. RAILWAY FOR AUSTRALIA. (Received 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. Mr Louis Brennan, the inventor, very successfully ran a gyroscopic ear 40 feet long and 10 feet wide, carrying 40 passengers, on a monorail, using two gyroscopes 3s feet in diameter at 3000 revolutions a minute. The passengers changed sides while the car was in motion. It is stated that Mr Brennan contemplates a monorail in Australia with carriages 150 feet long by 20 feet broad, and with two storeys.
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 270, 12 November 1909, Page 5
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