SILENCING THE WHISTLE.
A "whistling code" lias, been drawn up for tlie French railways, and engine drivers are now ordered to whistle as little as possible, and must not do so when starting from a station (savs the "Manchester Guardian"). If. this sort of thing goes on, we shall soon be back in the early Stephenson days, when the railway whistle was unknown. It might never, indeed, have been known at all had not a certain engine, appropriately named Samson, run over a cart laden with butter and eggs that had got on a level crossing 011 the Leicester and Swanniugton line. There was a frightful pother about it. and the manager of the line suggested to Stephenson that a whistle that could be blown by steam might be fitted to the engine. "A very good idea," said Stephenjson, and the first tea Ixl trumpet" was accord - | ingly made.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 252, 24 October 1934, Page 6
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149SILENCING THE WHISTLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 252, 24 October 1934, Page 6
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