A while back the Hartford, Newhaven, «md New York Railway Company offered a 10,000-doUar reward for the best invention for automatically controlling the speed and automatically stopping trains when fixed signals are disregarded. There w «e 1554 repliee emanating from all parts of the world submitted to the oomPany, but only five per cent, were conJtfered, these being ultimately reduced to two. Qf the two arrentors who are far the prize, one is Mr. W. i- a ssachinist at tiie Egmont
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 204, 27 August 1913, Page 7
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