SPEEDY GERMAN TRAIN.
BRITAIN WILL CHALLENGE,
LOXDON", June 13. A Berlin message says the State railway authorities announce that a new streamlined engine, drawing" 200 tons, during an official test between Berlin nml Hamburg reached a speed of 110.80 miles an hour —a world's record. A British official commented: "We are not dismayed. We still have to put the locomotive Silver Jubilee on the road, for which special stock is being constructed. We shall challenge the German record with confidence." iSS
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 7
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81SPEEDY GERMAN TRAIN. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 7
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